Sunday is the first day of Advent and I am looking forward to starting a reflective journey using Disturbing Complacency from Sunday.

I know of at least one other person that will be attemptingthis particular Advent journey, its probably too late to et the book now unless you find it in some Christian bookshop somewhere, but there is nothing to stop you joining in the discussion and ordering the book to arrive in advent.

I like the expectancy that comes with Advent. The waiting, the looking, the anticipation of the arrival of the King. In a society that worships the instant, I think Advent is a time for a reality check, to reconsider who we are, what we are motivated by, what we are waiting for and ultimately, I guess, where our authentic focus is.

By authentic focus I mean that desire within us that drives us; the thoughts we go to sleep with at night and are hanging in our minds when our eyes open in the morning – a new car, a new apple mac, an iphone, a house …. my relationship with God.

I would love to be able to say that I go to sleep with and wake up with God in my mind, but often it is those other things of distraction. I admit that I have been sucked in by the worship of the instant in our society.

I hope Advent will allow me to wake up with God hanging in my mind more often.

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