The Third Sunday of Advent brings us joyfully closer to Christmas by turning our self-understanding upside-down. Clay Nelson challenges us to acknowledge and live out our calling. "Listening to the Baptiser and Isaiah, I feel a little like Alice falling through the rabbit-hole into Wonderland. She was convinced that she had fallen right through the earth and was destined to come out where people would be upside down. The world is definitely upside down when God is no longer only beyond us, but discovered within and between us. The world is definitely upside down when the world’s rejects are found not to be the cursed of God but the ones through whom God shows us new possibilities for abundant life. The impossible is now not only possible but plausible." Full text at http://www.stmatthews.org.nz/nav.php?sid=448&id=900