O come, O come, Emmanuel. Amen.
Advent
calls us to pay attention. Whether it is Jesus or John the Baptist, the message
of this season is to focus. There are so many distractions this time of year:
lists running through our heads, an overbooked social calendar, and stress about
year-end budgets. It can be easy to miss the important things. And it doesn’t
help that this passage from Luke is a familiar one, so it could be easy to
gloss over it. But this morning, I’d like to pay close attention to our Gospel text.
