 For Stay Woke Advent, we read a quote from Alice Walker. Some of us are not content to have a gap in opportunity and income that drives a wedge between rich and poor, causing the rich to become ever more callous and complacent, and the poor to become ever more wretched and humiliated, not willing to ignore starving and brutalized children, not willing to let women be stoned or mutilated without protest, not willing to stand quietly by as farmers are destroyed by people who have never farmed and plans for engineer to self-destruct, not willing to disappear into our flower gardens, Mercedes-Benz's or Sylvan Lawns. We have wanted all our lives to know that Earth, who has somehow obtained human beings as her custodians, was also capable of creating humans who could minister to her needs. And the needs of her creation, we are the ones. Stay woke.