All kinds of things and situations can keep us awake. For some people, caffeine will do this. Other substances with some stimulant will do the same. But anxiety, fear and worry, will have the same effect: prevent us from sleeping. On the other hand, a phone call announcing some unexpected […]
1st Sunday of Advent, Year B
Many of us will have heard the words of a friend calling on his friend : “Wake up! I am talking to you!” Or, someone addressing a colleague with insistence: “Wake up! I am speaking to you about something important.” In both cases, what we hear is a ‘wake up call’, […]
1st Sunday of Advent, A
Some people are… shall we say: ‘bossy’ by nature. It seems that their preferred mode of relationship is ordering others around – telling them to do things, or not to do them. To have their way, they often resort to coercion. Domination is what they know best. Other people are […]