Waching daily Dec 2 2017

are you playing gotcha with God

oh here we are folks in Advent we're getting in that last countdown of time

the single most important event that ever occurred in human history now

you're probably thinking it's time to go shopping if you haven't shopped already

you know we're we're we're running around and we're preparing everything

but what are we preparing ourselves for what's all this frenzy what's all this

hubbub it's all this buying and selling worrying about this decoration or that

recipe and what's it all about you know it's possible to spend a month or two

months of frantic preparation gift buying decorating and not really know

what you're doing who is it that we are entering into this time of preparation

for this season that we call Advent Latin a venir e to come one drawing near

to approach who and what is approaching the answer is simple

God is approaching God is coming to enter into our lives the life of

humanity and nothing nothing will ever be the same again

are we more concerned with this or are we concerned with what should I get for

it and Monica or that grandchild or where's

that old recipe that I need or how about the latest LED light display to really

light up the place you know those things in and of themselves are not bad

but they need to take their place they need to be a sideshow because the

primary focus must be on the Incarnation the coming of God in the flesh think of

it think of it if that really happened and continues to be a reality then

nothing absolutely nothing should be the same ever again

Jesus says be awake be alert well God is not absent God continues to be here but

he is going to make himself evident in this part of the church here called

Advent come follow me on this path to greet the god man come let us travel the

road to Bethlehem together and see what this is all about so that we may be

fully aware fully awake fully prepared to celebrate the greatest event in

history amen