Urgent
My kids went off to school today slowly and unwillingly because they have already started considering Christmas, and our vacation that follows. The countdown has begun in earnest. As I sit here writing, I am getting one email notification after another from retailers and online purveyors of various goods and services. They are telling me that this is the last day that I can guarantee delivery before Christmas. There's so much urgency in the air, isn't there? The questions that hovers over all of us right now go something like this: "Do you have all your gifts purchased?" "Do you have everything you need for all of those parties?" "Do you have the right things to wear for every event?" But the question that often gets overlooked in this week's frenzy of doing is the one that was asked by John the Baptist to the crowds he addressed in the first century---crowds who were waiting desperately for a Savior....