I used these two
“Advent” books in 2019 and didn’t get on that well with either
of them.
The main problem is
that neither of them actually fitted with the liturgical season.
Freedom is Coming was arranged in weeks, starting on Sundays.
Assuming you start your Advent reading on Advent Sunday then,
depending on the year, Sunday of week 5 will at the very earliest be
Christmas Day, but for me was 29th December, yet Baines
writes “As we approach the surprise of Christmas...” while a week
later he reflects that “Advent allows us the space and time to
resist the pressure to rush to Christmas...” - he seems to have
resisted that temptation so successfully that Christmas has been and
gone without him noticing. Image of the Invisible had dated
reflections – so Scott Robinson does actually manage to notice
Christmas Day but then on the Feast of Holy Innocent decides to
reflect on God’s Kingship with not sense of irony or using God’s
Kingship as counter to the false and brutal Kings and Rulers of this
world.
Within them there
were snippets of inspiration – but it felt they were hard won from
the overall whole of either book.
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