This is the fourth Sunday of Advent, and for many retailers everywhere the 'so many days until Christmas' countdown has dwindled down to less than three! (exclamatory marks sold separately at fine stores everywhere)
Perhaps today is a good day to see someone in a corner of our lives we usually just glimpse while on our way to the many big and important things we each do and never really acknowledge.Let's face it: we're a pretty crowded ant farm with appointment calendars, beepers, and briefcases and sometimes the person next to us falls through a crack and we never notice they're gone.
Anglicans (Church of England in the United Kingdom) call this Stir-up Sunday, not as in get agitated or become more forcefully engaged in the world around us, but for more quiet and comfortable reasons, but I do like that name and the possibilities and connotations.
For some of us, this is the best of the Season of Joy and for others, it's really nothing more than the next to last Sunday of the year. We are the sum total of all the choices we make and the lives and love we share. We are the reason for this season.
-bill kenny
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