An experienced rabbi was once asked why so few people were finding God. He replied that people were not willing to look that low. The one bringing heaven into the world this Advent season is the one who lights up the ordinary with the extraordinary. He does that with a power available to all of us, every day of the year. The one whom we await this Advent season invites us to love one another.
Love is the power that allows the extraordinary to break in on the ordinary.
Love is the power that creates out of the chaos and questions of the wilderness, a restored and resurrected world. Love is the power that answers our Advent longing. The one whom we await this Advent season invites us to love one another. He invites us to be, as we know that we are, the ongoing Incarnation. Our new year will be lit by how we live.