Every year, when we put the nativity scene on the fireplace mantel, we hang a star above it on the wall. This year, I had to move the clock from that location before I could hang the star. I probably look at that clock a hundred times a day. What time is it? Is it time for the older kids to catch the school bus? Is it time to take the youngest one to school? How much time do I have to get something done? Should the children be home soon? Is it time to get the youngest? What about those after-school activities? Is it time to go? How much time before my husband gets home? Is it time to start dinner? Go to sports practice? Send the kids to bed? Fall into bed myself? What time is it?
The first few days after I moved the clock, I instinctively looked to the usual place on the wall, only to find not a clock, but a star. I was frustrated at first. After all, what I really wanted to know was what time it was, not the location of an unusually placed star. Then I slowly began to see an Advent message in the situation. Two thousand years ago, God used a star to tell the world what time it is. It is the time for hope. It is the time for a new relationship with God, no longer barred by unforgiven sin. It is the time for Christ, our Savior, who will someday come again! That is what time it is.
-- Anne Inkster Culver
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