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Gospel
Mk 13:33-37

Jesus said to his disciples:
“Be watchful! Be alert!
You do not know when the time will come.
It is like a man traveling abroad.
He leaves home and places his servants in charge,
each with his own work,
and orders the gatekeeper to be on the watch.
Watch, therefore;
you do not know when the Lord of the house is coming,
whether in the evening, or at midnight,
or at cockcrow, or in the morning.
May he not come suddenly and find you sleeping.
What I say to you, I say to all: ‘Watch!’” 
 

This Advent, I am going to try to post a daily blog  that helps my readers have a richer Advent — an Advent  closer to God.  In the spirit of my blog, I will also do my best to incorporate Family and Crafts with the God focus.  For me, they all go together.

To watch and wait for the coming of the Lord, is to look within.  Prepare, as we watch. Live as if we are ready to meet the Lord.

From this moment (and I will probably need to start again and again throughout  Advent) I will watch my current move, my next move. Will all I do help me prepare for the coming of the Lord - at Christmas and forever in my heart?

I will try.

Peace, Ann

Daily Scripture source: http://www.usccb.org/nab/

Yesterday morning, as the sun rose beside the neighbor’s house, we sipped our coffee. Sitting on the couch, we watched out the window as the individual rays of sunlight touched the leaf-bare branches of our berry tree. The dried red berries were coated with frost, and as the sun melted the crystal fragments, each berry, one by one, glistened with a drop of water.

It was just one way in which nature brings me to the reality of the wonder of God’s creation.  Just as we praise the God of our Redemption, Jesus Christ, and the God of our Sanctification, The Holy Spirit, so also, we praise and worship the God of Creation, God the Father.

Look out the window. What do you see?  If you can see a tree, a blade of grass, or even if you can only see the sky as God’s only creation, then rejoice!  God has given us many complex, yet simple gifts in the world around us.  This is one thing to be thankful for. Again I say rejoice!

Peace,

Ann