Reflection on presence for the second week of Advent

Not your first Christmas, is it?
Dust off the stored-away tree.
Paint on that holiday smile.
Ready the cheek kiss.
Slide your glass forward for another.
Borrow what excitement you can, if you can.

Wait!

Believers will have none of this weariness.
They predict surprises.

Invitations hid in ordinary guise,
ready to awaken you into the now with the sharp cry of a Bethlehem birth.

Why else would shepherds run with angelic news
and sleepless Magi follow a night star?

reprinted from The Catholic Health Association of the United States

Click here to visit the Catholic Health Association's Advent reflection, "Be Ready," for the first week of Advent.

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