Ask not, doubt not. You have, my heart, already chosen the joy of Advent. As a force against your own uncertainty, bravely tell yourself, “It is the Advent of the great God.” Say this with faith and love, and then both the past of your life, which has become holy, and your life’s eternal, boundless future will draw together in the now of this world. For then into the heart comes the one who is Advent, the boundless future who is already in the process of coming, the Lord, who has already come into the time of the flesh to redeem it.
--Karl Rahner
Father in heaven.
The day draws near when the glory of your Son
will make radiant the night of the waiting world.
May the lure of greed not impede us from the joy
which moves the hearts of those who seek him.
May the darkness not blind us
to the vision of wisdom
which fills the minds of those who find him.
About Me
- Ned Kessler
- I am a husband to my sweet wife, Mary Ann, a father to our five children, and a grandfather to our ten grandchildren. My college degree is in mechanical engineering. I've done much international business travel to Europe, Eastern as well as Western, to the Far East, South America, and South Africa. Since retiring early, Mary Ann and I have lived in England and Spain where I worked in a consulting role. My love of writing goes back to childhood, but it was not until the year 2000 that I got serious about it. That's the year I took the first of several classes in fiction and autobiographical writing at Rollins College in Winter Park. I've written many stories without submitting any to be published, but I hope to finish a collection of stories about the time when I lived and worked in Ferrol, Spain. I am a lifelong Catholic who loves my faith and my Church, especially the liturgy, the field in which I now work part time.
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