My Way of Having Advent

Friday, December 3, 2010
7:50am

"O Come O Come Emmanuel" is playing from Youtube on my computer right now. I woke up with a cold, so I'm not moving incredibly fast. I lay back down, decided to read some news on BBC. Space plane, tax cuts, Venezuelan flooding. It's easy to be oblivious, and sometimes I purposely turn a blind eye to what's going on out there. It's strange to me, though, to think that I could not know until this morning what's happened to the people of Venezuela. Used to be, I'd read the news and know what I needed to pray for. Now I don't pray so much. I find it impossible and ludicrous (for me, personally, no judgment on those of you who are devout, praying people) to try to address a consciousness so much greater than my own. What I do, instead, is just try to unite mind to that larger one, and if there's something that I previously would have outright prayed for, now I just hold it in mind. So, this is my way of having Advent this morning. Listening to my favorite Advent song, and holding the people of Venezuela in mind as i try to connect my mind to a higher one. Peace and blessings.