Today marks the beginning of Advent, the season of hopeful waiting that leads to Christmas. Candles are lit throughout the Advent season, symbolizing hope, love, joy and peace.
What would you light a candle for as you look toward something in your future?
Few things are more frustrating than having somewhere you are eager to go or somewhere that you absolutely need to be and finding yourself stuck in traffic, blocked in by hundreds or thousands of people who all have their own agenda about where they need or want to be.
How do you respond to people who feel like obstacles on your journey?
“We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.”
―Henry Ward Beecher
In what aspect of your life are you proud of the distance you have traveled rather than what you have achieved?
It’s easiest to start the long list of things that merit our gratitude with the big things: health, family, community and such. But there are so many very small things to be grateful for: seeds and bees and the time your child did the dishes without even being asked.
What small things are you grateful for?
In costume and in collective imagination, re-enactors travel in time to Renaissance Fairs or Civil War re-enactments or the Victorian world of Charles Dickens, to name only a few. Of course, these environments are inevitably far more convenient and pleasant that the original version, but if you’re going to travel to someplace that you can’t actually go, you might as well make it nice.
Where do you go in your mind that is far nicer as you remember it than it was in the original version?
