Advent 4c -- Dec 21, 2025
author: Dale Hathaway date: St. Alfred's Episcopal Church title: Advent 4 Sermon Draft 3 Intro I remember sitting up late beside the bunk beds that were shared by my little brother and my cousin Peter who was older than I. We were forcing ourselves to stay awake in order to see the signs of Santa flying across the sky and appearing in our house. Peter was several years older than I, so I looked to him as an authority. There was a part of me that was old enough to be silently wondering, "Was I being too childish or childlike? Surely Peter is old enough to know." We didn't make it that night. We were asleep when Santa arrived. There's some part of me that, with some kind of irregular schedule in my subsequent years, I never gave up. I have looked for signs throughout my life. Signs of what's really going on. Signs in the midst of chaos happening in my life that might indicate that it was going to be okay. Signs as I grieved when my children moved 1,000 m...