how many of us are Bernard Madoff's

How many of us really are "Bernard Madoff's" in our daily lives? Most if not all of us won't have $50 billion to attempt it with...but we are often trapped in lives of outward image management.

Thank you God for your gift of forgiveness in a world based more on outward image than authentic soul.

This night, the eve of Christmas, for we who are disciples of Jesus, we celebrate again that ultimately it is not our image, but the light of God in Jesus Christ that shines through us that is real.

Advent time in a Christmas world

everywhere its Christmas around me. but on the christian calendar its advent. waiting & hoping. that's where most of my life is spent. there are those rare glimpses of heaven that are pure joy. that's Christmas! so I'll wait in advent because those glimpses of joy are worth the wait.