Happy Advent!

Hello my friends and family!

I hope your Thanksgiving holiday was full of pumpkin pie and love. I journeyed south to Dearing, GA with my team director, Helen. The fabled hospitality of the Almeters did not disappoint (though I still missed home).

I am always very excited about Advent. I think it is my favorite liturgical season. Keeping vigil excites me. Watching and waiting for Jesus; it increases the desire to go to heaven in my heart. I pray for similar aspirations for you all! I want to write here again some of the words of Mark's gospel we heard at the first Sunday of Advent:

"But of that day or that hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. Take heed, watch and pray; for ou do not know when the time will come...And what I say to you I say to all: Watch." Mark 13:32-33, 37