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I år læser jeg en bog af Bonhoeffer med daglige reflektioner over advent. Det er en del af mit perfekte morgenritual, inden dagen går i gang. Det er sjovt, så nemt det pludselig er at stå tidligt op før alle andre, når man kan se frem til en halv times kvalitetstid med Gud, kaffe, stearinlys og pakkekalender fra mine kære veninder og mor! You should try it - sådanne dage kan kun blive gode! Her er et uddrag af adventsteksten for et par dage siden: "Celebrating Advent means being able to wait. Waiting is an art that our impatient age has forgotten. It wants to break open the ripe fruit when it has hardly finished planting the shoot. But all too often the greedy eyes are only deceived; the fruit that seemed so precious is still green on the inside and disrespectful hands ungratefully toss aside what has so dissapointed them. Whoever does not know the austere blessedness of waiting - that is, of hopefully doing without - will never experience the full blessing of fulfillm...