23/12/2025

Tuesday Advent Week 4

I am again unable to sleep. I am not, however, upset by what is becoming a familiar pattern of daily life for me although I would rather get through my nights in sleep.

God knows that I try to make use of this wakefulness by turning  my consciousness to thoughts of how to make myself ready for the moment when I will cross the threshold that leads out of this world.

I would like to be able to face the inevitability of that moment with the fortitude that comes about from true faith in the Mercy that is the Love which IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT not only is but with which he creates and supports all of us who acknowledge him by doing his will during our lifetimes.

I always pray that my thoughts and prayers are not just empty or even ego-centric boastful words. Sometimes, however, they do please me and it is for protection against this sense of personal worth that God knows I do cry out as I raise my heart and mind to him.

"In those days" when the Gospels were being lived in real-time all communication between human beings was by direct contact with each other. In today's Gospel  all of the Hill Country of Judah was stirred up by and talking about the birth of John the Baptist. Human beings were sharing their feelings with other human beings.

If we are to live in the way IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT wants us to prepare ourselves for Eternity we have to complete our Love of God by following the Way, Truth and Life of Jesus to love our neighbour as ourself. We must actively seek out ways we can care and share, for and with, all other humans and not only our close relatives.

The Incarnate Word whose birth we are awaiting is not only the perfect sacrificial atonement for all sin, he is also the totally perfect human love and it is the following of his tender example of this that completes the salvation that is the Incarnation. 

"My yoke is gentle, my burden is light."