The Advent and Christmas season is a sacred time -- not because we commemorate an event that happened long ago, but because it reminds us that this event happens time after time. The holy, the sacred birth is always happening. Christ is always coming. God is always waiting to be born in us, in our lives, in our world.
We name Jesus "Emmaunuel" -- God with us -- not because it happened once, but to remind us that God is always with us. As close to us as that ordinary, messy stable next door, or our own messy lives right here.
We speak of Advent as a time of waiting, but it's not just we who are waiting, it's God -- waiting for us. Waiting for us to turn to him; waiting for us to answer her call; waiting for us to open our eyes and see, open our ears and listen, open our hearts and feel the sacred all around us.
I am reminded of the words to the chorus of a Cyndi Lauper song, "Time After Time", and can imagine God saying them to us, through the story of Jesus:
If you're lost and you look,
then you will find me
time after time.
If you fall I will catch you,
I will be waiting,
time after time.
Time after time.
Time after sacred time.
Amen.
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