Once again, the seasons are changing. The leaves on the trees are growing colorful and the flowers that once where so lovely have become brown. The longest Season of the Church’s Year is drawing 
towards its end, and we celebrate Christ the King Sunday, the last Sunday in Ordinary time before Advent.
Jesus modeled Kingship over His community in a way so unlike the Kings humanity has produced. Servant leadership isn't something that we humans take to without a clear and compelling Example. Jesus' earthly ministry was not one of military power, invasions, or any sort of cohersion. This is how He showed us to lead others:
Mark 10:42-45
So Jesus called them and said to them, "You know that among the Gentiles those whom they recognize as their rulers lord it over them, and their great ones are tyrants over them. But it is not so among you; but whoever wishes to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wishes to be first among you must be slave of all. For the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many."
This Sunday, we again think of how the Kingdom hasn't come in it's fullness, lets look begin to anticipate it once again, by looking only to the Wounded, Servant King.
As we contemplate this, we will enter Advent, the Season during which we consider the Lord’s First Coming in the flesh and look for a deeper understanding of His Second Coming in our daily lives as well as at the end of time.
Time marches on, and as a tired world complains of Christmas shopping, let us remember, how and why we travel this road with Christ at all.
Almighty and everlasting God, Whose will it is to restore all things in Your well-beloved Son, the King of kings and Lord of lords: Mercifully grant that the peoples of the earth, divided and enslaved by sin, may be freed and brought together under His most gracious rule; Who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
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