How should we prepare for Christmas...?

Well, the first week in Advent is Hope. What are we hoping for, both in our own lives and in the world around us?

Watch in faith and certainty that our true returning Lord will take us into joy in sight of all who harbor ill for us even in His name!!  Acknowledge that we have died to the falsness of a self that the World had put upon us, and have allowed our true spiritual selves to to be resurrected with hope and honesty that shall be a light to our broken and darkened world.