Comments on: The Advent Wreath and How to Make One http://www.rabbitroom.com/?p=1179 The Rabbit Room Wed, 08 Sep 2010 23:43:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Travis Prinzi http://www.rabbitroom.com/?p=1179&cpage=1#comment-25455 Travis Prinzi Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:22:05 +0000 http://www.rabbitroom.com/?p=1179#comment-25455 We started this tradition just last year. Except that my wife hated the idea of 3 purple and one pink candle (huge color clash with our house decorations), so we ended up with all green for the outer candles. What observing advent as a family helped us do, and will help us to do this year, is to teach us how to enter into the story to which we already belong. Some people deride Advent as a practice, because to them, it's the time of year where we pretend Jesus hasn't come yet. But that's not it at all. We enter the story through Advent, and more importantly the Story enters us. We started this tradition just last year. Except that my wife hated the idea of 3 purple and one pink candle (huge color clash with our house decorations), so we ended up with all green for the outer candles.

What observing advent as a family helped us do, and will help us to do this year, is to teach us how to enter into the story to which we already belong. Some people deride Advent as a practice, because to them, it’s the time of year where we pretend Jesus hasn’t come yet. But that’s not it at all. We enter the story through Advent, and more importantly the Story enters us.

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