The Fourth Week of Advent....

Time marches on with incredible dedication.  We have so little of it here.  Some of us have to hurry to complete our "life tasks" and some of us never do finish.  There are those who say this leads inexorably to a return to "earth school" to get through the learning process and accomplish all the things that were intended for us.  I have no idea.  This presumes an active and participatory cosmic supervision of some sort, but then, so do all religious philosphies.  There is a great deal of comfort offered by the notion that there is an external "higher power" to which appeals can be made.  It is my belief that our "Deity" is internal.  If we are made in His image and, Jesus, His incarnation, tells us we each have the spark of divinity within, what else could it mean?  Just maybe we each carry within us the power of God.  Doesn't that require that we be held to a much higher standard?