Preparing for Christmas: Daily Meditations for Advent

We are always the “stable” into which the Christ is born anew. All we can really do is keep our stable honest and humble, and the Christ will surely be born.

We can’t manage, maneuver or manipulate spiritual energy. It is a matter of letting go and receiving what is being given freely.

Mary’s “yes” was said in the darkness of faith. She was not certain, nor assured by any Scripture quote, doctrine or pope. She just heard what she heard, and did what God asked her to do, accepting the consequences.

If Jesus is the symbol of the gift itself and how God gives the gift, then Mary is the symbol of how the gift is received and treasured.

This is not psychological worthiness; it is ontological, metaphysical and substantial, and cannot be gained or lost.

we tend to localize evil in our bodies more than in our mind,

What we don’t have is the rest of our lives because we do not even have the now of our lives.

The Spirit always connects, reconciles, forgives, heals and makes two into one. It moves beyond human-made boundaries to utterly realign and renew that which is separated and alienated.

Our Christian wisdom is to name the darkness as darkness, and the Light as light, and to learn how to live and work in the Light so that the darkness does not overcome us.