Author: Gwenda Coté (page 10)

Advent is about today. It is about changing, recommitting, and living as beacons proclaiming the love of God to our world that suffers.

We should not allow ourselves to see the birth of the child Jesus at Christmas without also understanding the life, death, and resurrection of the man.

In Jesus’ desperation, the last voice he hears is a voice that affirms His life, His love, and His mission. How wonderful is that!

When we come before God in prayer and find a silent place within where God can speak. We hear His voice.

With the eyes of faith, with the eyes of love, we will know and experience the real presence of those we love as with us still.

Our God is not a fickle God. He does not bless or punish with illness or the weather.

The Gospel calls us to look differently at our lives and ask God to reveal the Sin that holds us bound. We need to look for the Sin that is the source of all other sins in our lives.

I wondered how arrogant to think I have a part of the faith of Jesus. Not just faith in him but faith that is one with His own faith.

If there is a message in this very well-known Gospel today, it is to cut others slack when they don’t act or respond in the most appropriate way. We don’t walk in their shoes. We don’t know their hearts. We don’t know the burdens they carry. 

We need not wait for heaven to find and experience our True Self.