Again the voice cries out: “Prepare the way of the Lord” – as it did last year; as it will again. What have you prepared? What will you remember about this Advent? 

Did you know I used to live in Loudoun County back in the 1980s? I owned a home in the hamlet of Paeonian Springs. After growing up in Florida and always living near the ocean, suddenly I was inland and living on the first ridge of the Blue Ridge Mountains. After years of competitive swimming, I was now living in a county that, at that time, did not have a public swimming pool. I needed a new sport.