Advent means coming. It is also the first part of the word Adventure. This year’s Advent scriptures mix many strong images and emotions. We hear the challenge to Watch! Be Alert, Make Straight, and Await! But we are also assured by The Lord is With You, and We are the Clay and God is the Potter’s Hands, and Give Comfort to my People and We Rest in the Shepherding Arms of Jesus. Ultimately these images lead us to proclaim with Mary that Nothing is Impossible for God. The combination of these feelings and happenings are indeed an adventure of faith.
Our possibilities with God are most powerfully proclaimed and cele-brated in the Feast of Nativity when the Child King is given to us by a God who knows the possibilities in the divine human enterprise. When all humanity is raised up by the presence of our God in an innocent baby, our world is made holy.
As we come to the conclusion of Advent and celebrate in Christmas let us embrace the possibilities of our partnership with God and take those possibilities out to an eager world that awaits ongoing new life.
May the Adventure of this beautiful time of year be a magical one for you and your loved ones. Please share some of that magic with us here at St Mary of the Visitation Parish on Christmas.