Advent

Jennifer Shadle is a junior in the Master of Divinity program at Seminary of the Southwest.  Jennifer's home diocese is the Diocese of Colorado.  Prior to coming to seminary, Jennifer served as the department chair for the Music Department at Colorado State University – Pueblo.

Every year, I greet Advent with the heightened excitement, and undertone of dread, that we have come to associate with the month of December in postmodern America. My defense against the rampant commercialism is to deny its existence, refuse to participate in “sales events,” and inevitably discover with a shock of chagrin that I have something like four days left to do any of the traditional baking, decorating, and card-writing that I really enjoy doing.