22/12/2025

Monday Advent Week 4

I have always become totally uncalm when faced with anticipation of a future event. Today my whole being is without anchor and quivering its way through the time that remains to the great event that I am now focussed on.

When I had to travel overseas to work I would try to cope with this nervousness by what became the addictive misuse of alcohol and was only saved from this self-destruction by the mercy of God working through the kindness of strangers.

In these later days of my life, I have become aware that my essential being is still the same child who couldn't sleep as he anticipated the gifts that he hoped to find waiting on his bed when he woke up on Christmas morning.

For that child, however, Christmas was not just "gifts" it was the intangible atmosphere that occurred at no other time of the year and which even the onslaughts of the most ardent puritan, secular, humanist, feminist, now "woke" but at all times "ego-centric" enemies of God can not curtail.

The learned and the clever can easily demolish any of these my reflections into "sentimental claptrap" but I know that although I lack both wisdom and eloquence I am still the child created by "Our Father" and still able to find and respond with joy to the forgiveness that is God's "Christmas Present" to all mankind.

The crucified Jesus of Nazareth, is the Son of God and Son of Mary, who in his dying breath uttered the words that create the Church of Love, the New Holy Family which is our place of safety in this world until time ends and IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT, becomes ALLINALL.

"Woman behold your son. Son behold your mother." Amen