Day 3

I Awoke this day to 21 degrees!  Brrrrr. 

Time for a fire. One of my favorite things to do in this Casa. 

Felled, but not quite, by a bad cold, I now have enough "few minutes" to ponder and reflect. 

Advent. R Alan Woods says "the kingdom of God is the already, but not yet".  Reginald Gunn+ in his sermon last Sunday used these same words. So now they have my attention. 

How to make sense of already but not yet?  

I'll be pondering  this as I run out to get my cuppa and the New York Times. Priorities.  

Now bolstered by chicken soup, tortilla soup, and a nippy-nap, I am definitely more better. 

Now the light of this day is fading.  

I'm circling back to my earlier pondering. 

Traveling intentionally during Advent to a place of quiet, both in color and in sound, I seek clarity of my faith and my purpose. 

Already and not yet. I know Christ has come just as I know I am preparing for his coming. Similarly I know I have faith, yet I am a work in progress on the faith scale. 

I have been called to special work in my parish, and it turns out this has been a challenge to faithfulness. To my certainty. Already and not yet.