Week 4: Love - Tuesday

While I go about the house today, locking the vacuum tractor beam onto unsuspecting dust bunnies, mopping up spillage off the kitchen floor, and waving a magic duster wand around all the rest, I'll let the the words of others light the way.

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

Mother Teresa

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
Bertand Russell

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

George Sand

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Christmas, my child, is love in action.

Every time we love,

every time we give, it's Christmas.

Dale Evans

It seems to me that love demands a lot of waiting. Waiting for the right person, the right place, the right moment. For children waiting is an almost unbearable time of eager anticipation. There are whispers and giggles, a breathless, bug-eyed excitement. Waiting just might be the best part.

Pamela C. Hawkins wrote this about waiting in Advent:

"Holy Anticipation,

that breathtaking space in-between what has been, what is, what is-to-come.

Where winter dreams reveal secret longings
and winged angels announce the coming of Love.

You draw us to the edge of Advent possibility
like the song of angels drawing shepherds—

           eyes wide and breath held—

                              waiting, watching."

©2007 Pamela C. Hawkins, Behold: Cultivating Attentiveness in the Season of Advent, (Nashville, TN: Upper Room Books, 2011), 22.

Wherever you are found waiting this day - in the mall, at the grocery store, in traffic, at the clinic, in the kitchen wondering about what chore comes next -

make the most of standing still - 

waiting,

watching...

Be safe out there.

Let's all be home for Christmas.

©2025 April Hoeller