Starting Off Advent

Yesterday was the first Sunday of Advent, the season that starts off the Christian liturgical year.  For the next few weeks Christians will prepare themselves for the arrival of Christ, both the memory of his incarnation and the in-breaking of the kin-dom of God in the here and now.  Advent is a time to recenter our lives on what is truly important.  As the current pastor of Trinity UMC, Rev. Dr. Steve Manskar, likes to say - "To love God with all your heart, soul, and mind, and because you love God, you love who God loves through acts of mercy and justice."