TIPS FOR THE JOURNEY
Have you looked for a car park recently? There are none. Everyone is at the shops.
This annual shopping frustration puts an ironic layer upon Advent, the liturgical season of waiting.
During the four weeks prior to Christmas, we light the candles of our Advent wreaths and put ourselves in the spiritual space of the Israelites who, through many long centuries, waited for the coming of the Messiah, “How long, O Lord?”
Take advantage of the traffic and the shopping lines—really anything that makes you wait. And let the truth of what 18th-century French priest Jean-Pierre de Caussade said sink in: "God's activity runs through the entire universe. It wells up around and penetrates every created being… accept cheerfully all the difficulties you meet, and surrender to the will of God in all you have to do….
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Have a happy and blessed Christmas.
Shane
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