On the Cusp of...Advent

The Story of Western Civilization " John 13:34 " Photo Print, from my Faith Prints Gallery Dear Friends Old and New, Thanksgiving has come and gone. And a peaceable, congenial, restful one it was, even in these trying times. Now the Advent season is upon us, the time of the year when many of us prepare, we wait, we pray, we hope the story of the Christ child will be told as it has for well over 2000 years. We do so with the realization that Western Civilization itself owes its very existence to this history, this story, this compelling myth of our own existence. Yes, it is a mysterious one, as it should be, it is one the essence of which is both in and beyond our understanding, don't you find this to be true? The whole idea that a chaste woman is selected from all of humankind to become miraculously pregnant with the " Son of Man ," is a story over the top. " Absurd ," my mother used to exclaim, herself a very devout, Christian woman in e...