On Ongoing Advent Reflection (and a Christmas Break)

We began this series on waking weeks ago, and by connecting the dots, we worked through the neuroscience of our coping mechanisms and sorted through some of our disordered attachments. We landed with a sort of literary flourish, discovered Jean Valjean waking to his own disordered attachments. As he woke, what did he see? The light of the Bishop, which is to say the light of Christ. By waking to that light, Valjean found new life.

We’re in the season of celebrating the coming of light and...