advent awareness with G.K. Chesterton:
"There is at the back of all our lives an abyss of light, more blinding and unfathomable than any abyss of darkness; and it is the abyss of actuality, of existence, of the fact that things truly are, and that we ourselves are incredibly and sometimes almost incredulously real. It is the fundamental fact of being, as against not being; it is unthinkable, yet we cannot unthink it, though we may sometimes be unthinking about it; unthinking and especially unthanking. For he who has realized this reality knows that it does out weigh, literally to infinity, all lesser regrets or arguments for negation, and that under all our grumblings there is a subconscious substance of gratitude."
"But in a little while" we shall come to this realization that the abyss of light, actuality, existence, the fact that things truly are is the miracle we have all been waiting for, right before our very noses. We shall have our eyes opened for we will have finally answered the question of our existence, "Do you believe I can do this?" as Jesus speaks in the gospel, answered it together with the blind men, "Yes, Lord."
Our "Yes" to God who first said "Yes" to us remains the grounding of our life and the source of our gratitude and the reason for our faith.
Perhaps here we encounter the reason for the season.
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