Advent

"Advent..helps us understand the fullness and value and meaning of the mystery of Christmas. It is not our commemorating the historical event, which occurred some 2,000 years ago in a little village of Judea. Instead, we must understand that our whole life should be an "advent", in a vigilant expectation of Christ's final coming. To prepare our hearts to welcome the Lord who, as we say in the Creed, will come one day to judge the living and the dead, we must learn to recognize His presence in the events of daily life. Advent is then a period of intense training that directs us decisively to the One who has already come, who will come and who continuously comes."
-Pope John Paul II (Poland)

Bare-feet on Back-roads

The field is full of fog at this time of night
and the fresh bales line up like children in school.
Four houses surround it as they stare down on the night
as it becomes so much more.
Dogs whisper my name in the distance
while the little dipper appears again.

Now I become warmer
and the moon is smaller in the windshield.

The fog comes again in the morning.

"All paths lead to nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart."
-Carlos Castaneda