Refiner's Fire
Malachi 3:1-4
2nd Sunday in Advent - Peace
December 6, 2009
Rev Nancy Pfaltzgraf
Are you ready for Christmas? Do you have your house decorated? Your cookies baked? Your shopping done? Your cards sent? Depending on when your family celebrates Christmas you only have 18 or 19 days left, you know. So are you ready for Christmas? Are you ready to celebrate the birth of the Christ Child? Are you ready to receive once again the good news of the angels, run with anticipation like the shepherds and journey with the openness of the magi? Are you ready for Christmas? Or is there some cleaning up and polishing that still needs to be done in your home and your heart? Are you ready for Christmas? Are you ready for the coming of the One who will baptize your soul with fire?
In the Dances of Universal Peace there is a song that begins with these words:
Sweep out the chambers of your heart
Make it ready, make it ready
To be the dwelling of the Beloved
