What Advent Says About Attaching to the Right Things

Each attachment is a choice, a decision not to attach to something else. This begs the question: Will we hitch our horses to the things that matter less (work or money or booze or religion or whatever) or will we fix ourselves to the Divine Love?

It’s Advent, and last night, I made my way to a celebration service in Pittsburgh. (Yes, this is what I do for fun while on business.) There, the priest delivered the gospel reading for the day:

Jesus said to the crowds: “Come to me, all you who labor...