My purple outdoor Advent lights are still up

For the past few years, my house’s outdoor “Christmas lights” have been purple, in recognition of the Advent season. (My wife calls it one of my pharisaic impulses.)  Every year I resolve that on Christmas Eve I’ll replace the purple lights with traditional multi-colored ones, but it never seems to happen.

My wife continues to plug in the purple lights, even though Advent is over.  Yesterday I told her I’d thought of a theological rationalization for keeping the lights purple, one that matches my heretical christology: 

Advent is the season of waiting for the arrival of the Messiah, right? 

Well, nearly 2,000 Christmases have come and gone, and we’re still waiting ….

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