Advent prayers remind us what a difficult time and place Jesus was born into. And yet… has there ever been a time when it was not difficult to be born with such gifts? The world is not easy on people who are different, even when the difference is to “love the God who made you and your neighbor as yourself.” How radical can you get?
O Ultimate mystery,
who comes to us in many pictures,
grant that the story of Christmas may
awaken the child within us
We rejoice that Jesus led people to discover the sacred in the ordinary: in the crowd, in the lowly, in the everyday life, in human yearnings to be better people, and in being neighbor to one another.
read moreWe crouch with Mary on the straw of our messy lives
letting go of everything but this moment.
