Slow Down

Start living in the now

This letter comes early this week, hoping to catch you with greetings and best wishes for Thanksgiving, wherever it takes you. This is one of those years when Advent begins on what has turned into a virtual holiday weekend. For traditional Christians, this compact four-week season seems more and more a gift, and sometimes a powerfully counter-cultural gift. Advent whispers to the soul: Slow down, find some quiet, look at something other than the anxious rush. It will take an effort, won't it, to find that pace and that quiet?