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Out of Time (Nov. 26- December 24) The gospel lessons during Advent seem preoccupied with time and skip backward and forward over Jesus’ life like the second hand on a clock losing its battery – one week, Jesus speaks of a day to come; the next week, John the Baptist speaks of Jesus’ coming – they are chronologically disorienting in a way that seems intentional. Past and future collapse into God’s present, and the lines blur between Jesus’ first and second arrivals. Time, for us, is limited. And yet, God, who created time and exists beyond it, is busy within, around, and outside our experience of it. Even as we are running out of time, God chooses to enter into it, in order to dwell with us: Emmanuel, God-with-us.