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(This post was written prior to 2016, in a blog entitled “Jubal’s Jottings.”)
I attended a conference this morning. In the course of some conversation, someone said that they were going to meet this coming week to talk about the Advent season. There are a couple of ways to look at that, I guess. Today is November 8th, and I suppose you could say that Advent doesn’t begin until three weeks from tomorrow…plenty of time. On the other hand, my immediate thought when I heard the comment was…THERE ARE ONLY THREE WEEKS UNTIL ADVENT! (Did you catch the volume and stress in that statement?)
I know it’s difficult to be timely about things like worship planning, but I also know that many planners will wonder why things didn’t quite work out like they had hoped during some of these seasons. The simple and obvious answer is that there wasn’t a chance for things to work out because there wasn’t enough time allowed to even open the door for the possibility of success. Honestly, while I know that Advent/Christmas preparations are ongoing right now, this is the time to start thinking about the Lent/Easter seasons. Really, I mean it. If you want things to develop, gather resources, be creative…you MUST give longer range time to the process.
Sorry, Jubal. I went off a little there, didn’t I?