Do I Glorify the Lord?
I don’t know about you, but that describes a place I desire to be. A Church. Not a brick and mortar place, but a people “set apart” for one purpose. TO GLORIFY! For me, bringing God glory has been about learning to Love. I have and continue to learn not judge or berate or belittle; but instead to love, to commend, and to build up.
Is it "me" or "us"?
Again, I know this may seem like a small divide, or some insignificant ideology…but this is really a fundamental problem. This is a break in the body of Christ. There are believers who don’t think they are a part of the body! That’s a problem!
Pope Benedicts Homily 11.28.09
to monopolize our attention? Is it not true that you devote much time to entertainment and amusements of various kinds? Sometimes the things we “overwhelming.” Advent, the liturgical season strong that we are starting, invites us to pause in silence to understand a presence. It ‘an invitation to understand that the individual events of the day are signs that God makes to us, signs of the attention that has for each of us. How often God makes us feel something of his love! Hold, so to speak, a “diary interior” of this love would be a task for our beautiful and healthy life! Advent invites us and encourages us to contemplate the Lord. The certainty of his presence should help us see the world through different eyes? It should help us to consider our whole existence as a “visit” as a way he can come to us and become close, in every situation?
