advent

the homily today hit home.
sometimes simple concepts resound in my heart after the 20th time I have heard it.
it suddenly really makes sense.
fr. larry spoke of preparing our heart for the infant to come. our lord is coming. as a baby. and we pray that we are ready for his coming and ready for him to come into our lives. hearts and hands open.

i can actually relate to jesus, the baby, now. because i love! babies! when a baby is in the room if I don't get to hold it, I might go a little crazy. when I lived with 4 babies at a time, I tried to hold each one every day. when I have a day off, the babies that I live with get bigger and do cute things without me.

p.s. I am not their mother!

so my point is, I love babies, I love children. And now jesus is coming in a few weeks. (for a holiday i celebrate every year) but this year hits a little deeper... because I see how much I long to hold a baby, watch it coo and drool. everyday, without tiring of it. and I see now that my passion and love for this, is something that can be channeled torwards god very easily. (in concept).
I hope that I can long to be with God and strive for time with him and smile so big when we are together -
I hope that the excitement that hits when we are waiting for the pregnant belly to burst at our home can be here and now and always as I wait each year for Christmas. For Christ's Mass, his first coming to our lives. in his humble manger and in his careful parents hands. i hope now for more time with HIM and more excitement and love for HIM.

happy advent.