<What has happened to the old-fashioned, spiritual Christmas? The cause is our disregard of Advent. We set aside this four-week pre-Christmas season as a time of spiritual preparation for the coming of the birth of The Child. It is a time of quiet anticipation. If the Christ is going to come again into our hearts, there must be a turning away from worry and doubt and murmuring and mindless un-productive repetitions. Without adopting habits which give us a renewed spiritual life, our hearts will be so full of mundane things that there will be ‘no room in the inn’ for the Child to be born again.…During these four weeks we should not focus on the joy of celebration, which is the joy of Christmas, as much as we should focus on the joy of anticipation, ' as we wait in joyful hope for the coming'. - John R. Brokhoff, sort of>
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