“Be patient and without bitterness, and realize that the least we can do is to make coming into existence no more difficult for Him than the earth does for spring when it wants to come.”
Rainier Marie Rilke

There are many more people on earth right now who experience no anticipation of the coming of Christ than who actively celebrate His advent and birth.  Most don’t care, some might care if they knew, but plenty were ready for the whole Christmas thing to be over yesterday.

Whether we care or not does not alter that Christ does dwell with us, just as the coming of spring is not stopped by a slumbering disinterested earth.

Like Mary, we say:  “Let it be”, not “no, not me, not now.”

We are transformed, simply by accepting He has come on our behalf:  simple, but oh so difficult faith, like the shoot that must break through the crust of frozen earth to reach the sun, in order to bloom.