This Sunday we gather around the Advent wreath and light the fourth advent candle, the candle of Love.

So I was googling “love” and stumbled on a fascinating article in the New York Times about a phenomenon happening in China.

It began in 2012 at Tianjin University, about two hours southeast of Beijing. Parents of first year students are offered “tents of love” free to anyone, regardless of socioeconomic status, to take part in what is becoming a move-in tradition.

Parents are allowed to camp nearby for a month in order to help their children adjust to life away from home by, for example, cooking their meals or doing their laundry. Now that’s love!

God loves us even more than those devoted parents! On this fourth Sunday of Advent, we will focus on love, namely, God’s love for us, which God demonstrated by sending His Son for our salvation

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son that whoever believes in him will have everlasting life. John 3:16

This verse is one of the most well- known and often referenced verses in the New Testament because it clearly explains the message of the gospel. God’s love for each of us which is a gift. A gift that can be rejected or received.

The choice is yours.