First Week of Advent
'To live is to change, to be perfect is to have changed often.” This simple saying of Blessed John Henry Newman can make us uneasy – not only because we are all wary of change, but also because of the word “perfect”. I am not perfect, I reflect; but Jesus uses this unsettling word often.
So what is perfection? Perfection comes about by embracing change and changing often. The things of nature do not change by choice; they grow by nature. My man-made glasses are a perfect pair of glasses. They do what they were created to do, but they will never be anything else.
