Here and now
Advent for us means acceptance of [a] totally new beginning. It means a readiness to have eternity and time meet not only in Christ but in us, in our life, in our world, in our time. The beginning, therefore, is the end. We must accept the end before we can begin. Or rather, to be more faithful to the complexity of life, we must accept the end in the beginning, both together. ~Thomas Merton