The tell of one being a Christian is to orient one's life completely around the person and work of Christ. If not, then one cannot claim to be a Christian, at all.

“There is a birth from before the ages, and a birth from a virgin at the fulness of time. There is a hidden coming, like that of rain on fleece, and a coming before all eyes, still in the future.” St. Cyril of Jerusalem (313-386, C.E.)

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So, what is your calling? How will you relate to Jesus? Will you take up the command from Jesus to “follow me?”

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Each of us needs to find that place and that way of orienting and reorienting ourselves to what is important and why we are here.

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“Glory to God in heaven, and on earth peace among those whom he favors.” (Luke 2:14, CEB)

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“Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace among those whom he favors!”

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Know that struggle, rivalry, emotion, longing, and belonging are all part of our human experience. And God is just as much present within those times, as God is in the blessing before eating, or the spiritual conversation between friends, or the collective sojourn to church on Christmas Eve and/or Christmas Day.

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To bless another person is to open them to the possibilities of God’s actions in them and through them to the world.

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Advent is more than a season in the year to recognize. And Christ’s incarnation is much more than a doctrine to believe. Advent and incarnation are powerful realities which we must live into.

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We are to look up so that we can see how things truly are, and whom we really serve. Only then can we accept what is, and what God is doing.

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