advent-urous

i'm going to leave up my fall decorations (no pun intended) for just a bit longer, until the end of november. then everything comes down and nothing goes up...for a while. i found an old advent journal i kept in 2001 that had, handily, exactly 25 pages in it. one way i'd like to begin these holy days is by rereading it, one page at a time.

then, after a week or so of reading and of my home being bare, i will start to decorate. the empty space reminds me to make room for the sacred. as madeleine l'engle put it, "this is the irrational season when love blooms bright and wild! had mary been filled with reason, there'd have been no room for the child."