Here we are…winding down to the last few days of hustle and bustle before the celebration of our Savior’s birth…and winding down another year lived – all be it with ups and downs but LIVED.
I wish I could offer more…as I wrote that last sentence and tried to describe what I am feeling in this moment and have felt through the day I received a phone call from my youngest who is staying over at his grandparent’s tonight. Or shall I say was? He wants to come home. Crying he said, “I don’t want to cry in front of Honey (his grandmother) because I don’t want her to feel bad but I don’t like it back here in this room by myself.”
Even in his fear he is carrying about other’s feelings. 😉 Poor thing. So now I am going to say good night and get my son.
December 21, 2010
Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Advent
Readings: Sg 2:8-14 or Zep 3:14-18a; Lk 1:39-45
“Blessed are you who believed that what was spoken to you by
the Lord would be fulfilled.”
Lk 1:45
Mary went to see her elderly cousin Elizabeth, whom
everyone said was sterile but who instead had reached
the sixth month of a pregnancy given to her by God (cf. Lk
1:36), carrying in her womb the recently conceived Jesus. She
was a young girl but she was not afraid, for God was with her,
within her. . . . Jesus’ presence filled her with the Holy Spirit.
Address at the Conclusion of the Marian Month
May 31, 2005
Blessings
Shannon