These aren’t just Advent themes, but everyday themes of the spiritual life.
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God, present in our humanity, invites us into his divinity
No wonder this word, in the person of the Christ, comes particularly to sinners and those in need, and not the righteous.
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In the scriptures, God shows what being open to him can do
The Christ goes for broke — he takes care of business; he teaches and peers into the hearts of his “enemies” and shows them what faith can do.
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The word is so amazing when we hear God speak an ‘if’ to us.
How many “ifs” will open possibilities and doors and chances to grow, live, love, fin, discover, be transformed, and not harden, but find the voice of God giving and living within us and through us.
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God ‘walks in our shoes’ to understand us up close
He had to share everything — our blood, our flesh, our death. The redeeming of it all was again how he shared it, how he embraced it, how he renewed it.
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Jesus — the classic scapegoat — ‘carried the sins of all’
As they dumped everything upon him through their rejection, jealousy, condemnation, and the passion and death on the cross — as they scapegoated the Holy One — he showed how to be the scapegoat of love.
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Our faith is so present; it is the now, where we are at
What if someone were to write the story of our lives, beginning with right now — “in medias res”?
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Through our baptism, have we heard God’s voice speaking to us?
This biblical utterance made to Jesus at his baptism in the River Jordan is repeated over each of us.
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When the will of God is realized, we will see harmony, synchronicity, wholeness
In any case, the harmony, synchronicity and wholeness of that will is completely satisfying to us when we live that will here on earth, in our lives, and in the present.
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In the Christ there is life
The Christ, the Holy One of God, gives life and brings life and restores life always, again and again — with precision, wholeness, gladness and joy.
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