Incarnating Our Dreams for Religious Life
I've been spending a good deal of time with Joseph this Advent season. As I write this newsletter, I can see him standing on my prayer table, part of a little manger set from the Holy Land. There Joseph is, next to Mary, staff in hand, looking down at an empty crib. Just as we anticipate the coming of Jesus this Christmas, so too Joseph is anticipating this bundle of light and love and wonder--the incarnation of everything that is good--into his world, his life, and his rag tag family. He waits and he dreams and he trusts.