Advent season is upon us. As we tread the path often shrouded in thick fog, bit by bit, day by day, night after night, heads down, steps steady with caution, every once in a while we must look up. It all calms down when we stop and remember to glance back over the long arc of the greatest story ever told. The story you woke up in today. Racing off to the next game, trying to figure out what's for dinner, annoyed we forgot to put the trash out, falling asleep on the couch at 7:30, the onslaught of financial stress, disappointments, stuck in a meaningless job...we tumble around in what seems like a free-for-all.

Advent halts us, and gently takes our faces and points us in the direction of Jesus. Each and every year, Advent turns the page backwards to an old story; it pulls back the lens; it orients us to the plotline of hope.

Join me this Advent Season as we fix ourselves on the author of the plot. Let's settle down into the order of things. Let's look to the birds who remind us that this is God's universe, and he has not lost control..