Advent 14

Sometimes we think of change as an event. We have a birthday, get a new job, get married or divorced, have a child or lose a friend. But most change is not sudden, it is gradual. The promise of the change of Advent, of God entering our life, is merely a beginning. Very seldom does the holy spirit descend and miraculously we become candidates for sainthood. We watch a child open a present and counsel patience as he/she goes through wrapping, ribbons, a box and annoying attachment devices until finally the child reaches the prize. God coming into our life is like going through many layers of wrapping. We must be patient with the process of change, recognizing that every layer of the past and every layer of the old self that is removed ultimately takes us to whom we are meant to be.

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Webb Hubbell is the former Associate Attorney General of The United States. His novels, When Men Betray, Ginger Snaps, A Game of Inches, The Eighteenth Green, and The East End are published by Beaufort Books and are available online or at your local bookstore. When Men Betray won one of the IndieFab awards for best novel in 2014. Ginger Snaps and The Eighteenth Green won the IPPY Awards Gold Medal for best suspense/thriller. His latest, “Light of Day” will be on the bookstands soon.