You’ll hear a lot of religious extremists these days talking about the end times- God coasting down with an entourage of horsemen and a lot of fire and fury (sometimes the biblical is cinematic in its own way); but that’s not what this particular ending is about. We are just witnessing a falling away. And that, really, is what the season of Advent has always been about. It’s just that most years, we bury it in presents, activities, and happy jingle-jangle that we start singing right around Halloween. 

This year- maybe it’s down to just the falling away. And how we are left with the reckoning.