{"id":97,"date":"2008-12-12T18:43:21","date_gmt":"2008-12-12T18:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/textmessages\/2008\/12\/christmas-is-the-advent-of-eas.html"},"modified":"2008-12-12T18:43:21","modified_gmt":"2008-12-12T18:43:21","slug":"christmas-is-the-advent-of-eas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/textmessages\/2008\/12\/christmas-is-the-advent-of-eas.html","title":{"rendered":"Christmas is the Advent of Easter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Glenn Paauw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/Faiths\/Christianity\/Advent\/The-Advent-of-What.aspx\">says that Christmas is but the beginning of the Christian year, and should be treated as such<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\"><p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">By all means, immerse yourself in Advent and prepare for Christmas. Begin the cycle. But save yourself for the moment that really matters. The final battle will be faced, the decisive victory won. Be there when it happens. Don&#8217;t lose your seasonal moorings. Don&#8217;t exhaust your spiritual resources in mere December. Easter is the thing.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/Faiths\/Christianity\/Advent\/The-Advent-of-What.aspx\">Check it out<\/a>.\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glenn Paauw says that Christmas is but the beginning of the Christian year, and should be treated as such.\u00a0 By all means, immerse yourself in Advent and prepare for Christmas. Begin the cycle. But save yourself for the moment that really matters. The final battle will be faced, the decisive victory won. Be there when&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beliefnet"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Christmas is the Advent of Easter - Text Messages<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/textmessages\/2008\/12\/christmas-is-the-advent-of-eas.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Christmas is the Advent of Easter - Text Messages\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Glenn Paauw says that Christmas is but the beginning of the Christian year, and should be treated as such.\u00a0 By all means, immerse yourself in Advent and prepare for Christmas. 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