And for all of the love that Mary receives from the church — and she receives an awful lot of love — me thinks that her own desire is most of all that we grow in our love for her Son.
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A raging burn of determination
Not unlike that man and his companions who could not get through the wall. Nothing and no one could stop them from going up on that roof and dropping him down from the heavens through that roof before the very presence of the Lord!
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John announced the first coming. We announce the second
John said, “One mightier than I is coming after me. I am not worthy to stoop and loosen the thongs of his sandals. I have baptized you with water; he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.”
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In proclaiming God’s kingdom, his love gushes from him to us
And also to us? Me thinks that is so!
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Do we, like Mary’s ‘fiat!’, say yes to God’s grace and blessings?
For after all, Paul tells us quite clearly that we, too, have been filled with every spiritual blessing in the heavens.
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God our rock outlasts, withstands the buffeting winds, storms of life
Both Isaiah and Jesus are pointing us towards a most important focus, igniting within us a confidence in our God, and a belief that will be imprinted in and on our hearts, “In God we trust.”
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What if this Advent, 7 happens to us?
Are we prepared to meet him?
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There is no limit to God’s power to save, present us that Spirit
Except the limit that we ourselves place on it.
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Embrace the message of peace from the prince of peace
To truly make peace a lived reality, today.
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Open your spirit, be ready to meet Jesus any way he comes
Indeed the good news of Advent is: “The Lord Jesus shall come! Rejoice!” This is what the church believes. This is why we celebrate.
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