This will be a most exciting day, indeed, and you are urged to attend. In closing, as we continue in Advent with eyes focused on a distant, obscure, little town, these lines from the ELCA Devotional Guide for December seem most appropriate. We complain because Christmas is too commercial. We lament the 'Christmas rush,' which makes shopping a nightmare. And too often, between our complaining, our lamenting and our worrying, we overlook what's at the center of the season.
Advent is about waiting.
Christmas is about birth. And both of them are processes that cannot be rushed. Both of them are to be endured expectantly or gotten through patiently, but neither of them can be managed to suit our needs. For Christ will come. God has promised it and the star lights the way.