As Advent marches on read Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI’s on the Light of Christ, Lucy and Linus’s insight into life.  May your day be blessed!

“Life is like a voyage on the sea of history, often dark and stormy, a voyage in which we watch for the stars that indicate the route.  The true stars of our life are the people who have lived good lives. They are the lights of hope.
Certainly, Jesus Christ is the true light, the sun that has risen above all the shadows of history.  But to reach him we also need lights close by – people who shine with his light and so guide us along our way.”         

[Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI]

We Can’t See What Is Before Us, We Are Never Content

“In a Peanuts comic strip Lucy is speaking with Linus at the base of a hill. She says, "Someday I'm going over that hill and find the answer to my dreams.... Someday I'm going over that hill and find hope and fulfillment. I think, for me, all the answers to life lie beyond these clouds and over the grassy slopes of that hill!"

Linus removes his thumb from his mouth, points toward the hill, and responds: ‘Perhaps there's another little kid on the other side of that hill who is looking this way and thinking that all the answers to life lie on this side of the hill.’ Lucy looks at Linus, then turns toward the hill and yells, ‘Forget it, kid!’"  

[Brett Blair, www.Sermons.com] 

Our Advent preparation should be about wonder, about life, about love

and about being vulnerable to allowing God not only into our life BUT be our life! 

This Advent take a few minutes to thank God for those people who have been a light for you.

For a few moments in silence think about what your Advent is all about?

May God Be Praised!