“Maybe we should start making Advent lists – they’d be like Christmas lists, but instead of listing things we want Santa to bring us we could write down things we want Christ to break in and take from us. In the hopes he could pickpocket the stupid junk in our houses, or abscond with our self-loathing or resentment… maybe break in in the middle of the night and take off with our compulsive eating or our love of money. That’s how God works sometimes. Not through the things we are prepared for but through the things we don’t expect.”
–Nadia Bolz-Weber, Accidental Saints, p. 59
