Advent

Prayer is the best weapon we possess. It is the key that opens the heart of God. ---St. Padre Pio

 

This is the third day of Advent. We are three days into the waiting. We are waiting on God. Happy the man whose hope is in the Lord! What should we do while we wait? We should pray. We are in a fight as we wait. The devil hates it when we wait upon the Lord. The devil hates Mary more than any human because she waited in prayer. She said yes to the waiting and she obeyed every time she and Joseph had to deal with her calling. They fled to Egypt! Why didn't God just put a hedge around His Mother? Why did even she have to hide from harms way? If I were God I would have made it though she and Joseph could have stayed home without a care in the world. But God still acts this way in our lives. He allows things that we find uncomfortable and irritating. Is it that He is trying to birth Himself in each of us anew? We must look to Mary for guidance, she is our example of obedience and trust. Our best weapon as we wait is prayer, let us pray that we will be like Mary.

 

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Vancouver BC