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“Those two fit together like a hand in a glove.” “Those people complement one another like peanut-butter and jelly.” These common expressions of compatibility remind us that some things fit well with one another.

As most of you may remember, our Missions Weekend in November had to postponed due to sickness. It appeared to be an interruption in our plans. Now, here we are, the second week of Advent and we are having our Missions Weekend.

This coming Sunday is the first Sunday of Advent. The word “advent” means arrival. We are taking the time to look back at the First Advent of Christ while anticipating His Second Advent. In Advent tradition, there are Biblical words assigned to each of the four weeks before Christmas and one word assigned to Christmas Eve/Day.

Ever been mowing your lawn (obviously not today!) and started to hear a sputter? After the sputter the engine gives its best effort to keep going only to be followed by an abrupt shut down. Out of gas! What is true of a mower is equally true of our souls.

I don’t know if High School Graduating Classes still vote on what they think the futures of their classmates will be but we did that back in the last century. In addition to “funniest guy,” and “best dresser” we also had prophecies about who was most likely to succeed, among other categories. I don’t believe we had a category for “Unlikely to Succeed.”