Advent, like the life of the Christian, is a season of contrast and resistance. It is shockingly a dissatisfied life.

Jesus' coming, both past, and future, confronts us because it will not allow us to go on our merry way and live our lives unaffected by His coming. The world as you know it is gone. A new world has come.

The Jesus revolutionary believes that when Jesus returns to flip the world right side up, the weak will be made strong, the poor rich, the unknown known. We begin Advent by reminding ourselves that we are revolutionaries, and the lives we live are lived to one end. Resist the night, and share our specks of light in hope and love with the world around us.