I can feel it…I recognize it because of the taste of shame, like bile rising at the back of my throat. Slowly but surely ‘it’ is creepin’ in, latching on to any negative thought, unpleasant feeling and selfish desire to ‘get on’ with the holiday so there would be less to do. I can hear my spiritual advisor’s words slap me back into the fight, “The enemy will do anything to get you away from God, even disguise himself as a saint to confuse you.”
This Advent season has been crazy. I’m so sorry for conitnuously blogging about it but it is the only thing I have to say at the end of the day because that is how cosumed with ‘to do’s’ my day has been. I can sit and ponder ‘how have I shown up for God’ and I think, ‘hmmm, maybe it was by letting that person go before me in line at Walgreen’s today? Or better yet, not giving that lady a dirty look when she literally pushed me out of the way?’ 😉 Seriously… I’m liking the idea of Christmas in July more and more….I even declared it to Neal.
What is worse, ‘it’ sneaks in and blinds me from what God really is doing and that makes me sad. I almost forgot the great gift I received this morning by being with my Cornerstone Bible Study small group at our Christmas social and I was able to share Neal’s amazing conversion story. I love to share that story because to me it shows God’s love in a very real and tangible way. *sigh* okay, I feel better already. Get back Satan. 😉
I vow right now that tonight before I go to bed I will pray for every reader of this blog. I can’t say I’ll say everyone’s name for I don’t know all of you but I know God knows you and I want you all to be covered in prayer. 🙂 Maybe it’ll make up for all those ‘little’ things that maybe weren’t so ‘good’ today. 🙂
Ha! Well, it’s worth a shot. I know, I know…a reconciliation booth is calling my name.
December 15, 2010
Wednesday of the
Third Week of Advent
Readings: Is 45:6b-8, 18, 21b-25; Lk 7:18b-23
Jesus said to them in reply, “Go and tell John what you have
seen and heard: the blind regain their sight, the lame walk,
lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, the poor
have the good news proclaimed to them.”
Lk 7:22
The Word of God is the subject that moves history, inspires
the prophets, prepares the way for the Lord and convokes
the Church. Jesus himself is the divine Word who was made
flesh in Mary’s virginal womb: in him God was fully revealed,
he told us, and gave us his all, offering to us the precious gifts of
his truth and mercy.
Angelus
December 6, 2009
Blessings
Shannon