During the Great Fast, we watch for the day known as "mid-Fast." We wait for the Sunday of the Cross to indicate to us that the fasting season is half way through. It is simultaneously a comfort and an admonition. It comforts those who have labored to fast, knowing that they need only struggle yet a little while longer. It admonishes those who have not attempted to enter the Fast in the knowledge that the time grows short, and if any spiritual gain is to be made, the time is now.
We are entering that mid-point in this Advent Fast at the beginning of the coming week. And so, it's good to take inventory.
How has the time been going for you personally? Are you more spiritually connected than 20 days ago? Has your reading of scripture increased, or have you attended more of the Divine services at your church? Have you increased your almsgiving? Have you taken on additional service projects to those in need?
In three short weeks the Creator of all is coming to be born in the flesh. He will assume all of our human conditions except for sin. His very life will be threatened from the day of His birth. Tens of thousands of innocents around Him will be slain by evil men because they know of His coming. How do we live a daily life in partying ignoring these things knowing of them in advance?
The time grows short to the Day of our Lord's Nativity. But our time in this life grows short at the same time. Are we diligently preparing for our eternity, or are we living today as we lived yesterday, without care for tomorrow?
The Advent Fast still gives us time, but the sand is running to the bottom of the hourglass. Don't wait, for once the end comes, it is too late....
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