Flashback Friday: Putting a Dent in Advent
Every Friday I dig into the archives and dust off an old post. If you haven’t read it, it’s new to you!
I’ll start this post with a couple of confessions:
Confession #1: I stink at family devotions. Like, stink at ‘em. Not “we could get better. Last year we only memorized Leviticus, this year we’re going for the whole Pentateuch.” Not, “man, I only read the Bible to my family 363 out of 365 days in 2012. I am a miserable human specimen.”
Nope, I really stink at ‘em. And while we’ve tried family devotions plenty of times in the past, and while I occasionally pray with my family for specific needs, and while I will sometimes point them to specific scriptures in specific situations, it’s one of the many things that’s not a part of the warp and woof of my spiritual disciplines (although saying things like “warp and woof”? I got that one nailed.).
Confession #2: I don’t really know what Advent is. There. I said it. I grew up in church, would consider myself a conservative evangelical, and yet I am totally in the dark on Advent. Is it a calendar? Is there a secret handshake? I can remember ONE Christmas in our church, we lit an Advent candle each Sunday leading up to Christmas. So maybe Advent is an invention of the candle industry? But were they special candles? Scented? Did we get ‘em on a 2 for $22 Black Friday special at Bath & Body Works?
These are the things that keep me up at night…
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