I feel more prepared for celebrating Lent rather than Advent.
I'm ready for spring - for flowers popping up and new life abounding.
I'm eager for summer - for hot days spent outdoors near water.
I'm not dreading the impending winter season.
To a large extent thus far I've not really acknowledged its approach... but today, i saw snow...
Now that Thanksgiving is over, it is finally seasonally acceptable for folks to be decorating for Christmas and playing Christmas tunes... but I'm not ready - and it isn't that I feel overwhelmed about preparing for the gifts to be exchanged and the parties to be attended and it isn't that I'm morphing into the Grinch that Stole Christmas...
The time of Advent leading up to Christmas is supposed to be a time of joyful anticipation
The time of Lent leading up to Easter is typically a time of somber reflection
so what do you do when your spirit is in a place of Lent at the time of Advent?
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