advent...

hope, peace, joy
and love

"Politicians compete for the highest offices.
Business tycoons scramble for a bigger
and bigger piece of the pie.
Armies march and scientists study
and philosophers philosophise
and preachers preach
and labourers sweat.

But in that silent baby,
lying in that humble manger,
there pulses more potential power
and wisdom and grace and aliveness
than all the rest of us can imagine."

- Brian D. McLaren