http://www.elizabethfoss.com/reallearning/2013/11/november-silence.html
I'm going to try to re-read this one, probably every day between now and Christmas. It occurred to me at some point that I do not have Christmas presents wrapped and ready to go, even though I do have a baby "wrapped" and ready to go! I'm going to have a newborn as I prepare for the Christmas season...Christmas for 8 children...it usually entails a good deal of thought and, honestly, purchasing.
But this year? I wonder what would happen if I just sort of didn't. Didn't purchase, anyway. There could be baking. The kids would love to get in on that! There will be some gifts under the tree. But, I want to protect myself from the whirlwind of endless sales and deals and, on the home front, the lists of requests. I think I will think hard about a special gift or two, go with that, and leave it at that.
The corners can be filled in with firelight and candles, song and prayer. And cookies.
But I will have a new baby to be loving, and I want my Advent to be filled in joyful anticipation of the coming of that other Baby we are called to welcome and love. I don't want to lose the joy of nativity, my own, and the one that took place 2000 years ago. Those brief and fleeting moments when a newborn is new. I don't want to miss it. Not my own baby, not that other Baby either. I think Elizabeth's post is a very important one for me during this moment in my life.
So, I share the link.
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