Emphasis Preaching Journal

Advent is, for the church, a solid hook in the vast, uncharted, chaotic voids of space, allowing us to tether and take our bearings from at least one point, which is neither shifting with the currents nor dependent on our own powers to establish it. Advent is the place where Archimedes can set the fulcrum of his lever and move earth and the planets in a meaningful way because there is a critical unmoved position from which everything else is to be measured.