Thanksgiving is past, and Advent has begun. Are you ready? Have you started yet? No, not the decorating and the shopping and all the Christmas parties, as enticing as that all might be. The season can indeed be great fun...

"But make sure that you don’t get so absorbed and exhausted in taking care of all your day-by-day obligations that you lose track of the time and doze off, oblivious to God. The night is about over, dawn is about to break. Be up and awake to what God is doing!" (Romans 13:11-12)