No other season of the year extols the blessings of home quite like Christmas. It is a reminder that God offers each of us a home of love and acceptance.
Even though we really do try, we are unable to manufacture our own peace. But genuine peace is found in a person not a place.
Advent is a season defined by waiting, but this waiting is not passive.
The fifth petition of the prayer that Jesus teaches us speaks of both receiving and granting forgiveness.
“Your will be done” is a petition for patience.