As we concentrate on the birth of Christ and the gift of God the Father that came to the world so long ago, we may begin to see the need each of us has to form the gift of ourselves as a perfect response in love to the love of God. A love that never stops giving and never ends. This is what Advent should be.
Fr. Stan Corcoran in blog on the First Sunday of Advent 2010 at http://frstancorcoran.blogspot.com/2010/11/first-sunday-of-advent.html