Advent or Event

by Dennis F. Kinlaw

If advent means that God has come to earth in Jesus Christ, it means that heaven is not indifferent to human earthly life. Apparently, God cares about us and wants to share our lot by actually—surprisingly—becoming one of us. He knows in himself what it means to be God. In Jesus, he comes to know what it means to be human. God is not willing to keep a distance between himself and his creatures. His desire is nearness and intimacy, analogical to the personal intimacy that he, the Son, knows with the Father and the Spirit in the Holy Trinity. He comes because he wants to share himself with us so that we who are creatures can receive into our creaturely lives the one who is holiness, love, and eternal life.