"The season of Advent is like a springtime in nature, when everything is renewed and so is fresh and healthy. Advent is also meant to do this to us--to refresh us and make us healthy, to be able to receive Christ in whatever from He may come to us." (St Teresa of Calcutta)

How do we become refreshed during this Advent season? What is the grace God most want to give us to refresh us? It is spiritual eyes to recognize him when and as he comes to us individually and as a community. But the gift of spiritual eyes depends on the depth we are consciously expecting Jesus' coming. It is the expectancy of a child, whose excitement awaiting Christmas is obvious/ There is nothing more important for the child. Do we have that childlike expectancy as we away the coming of Christ?