Want to read something beautiful and meaningful this Christmas?
Then read Scot Alt:
SO ADVENT IS ABOUT WAITING, it is about surrender, and the silence of trust. It is also about repentance from sin and self-offering to God. It is about learning the weight of a fiat.
It is about knowing the presence of God and the rightness of His plan even as all our own plans slant
and tumble and fall amiss. God comes to us. He comes to us not because our lives are full of peace and there is money in the bank and gas in the car and food in the cupboard and clothes for all the kids. He comes to us because we have strife, because we are broke, because we have nowhere to walk and little to eat and wear socks with holes and shirts with frays. He comes to us when we are crying and broken, and if we don’t see Him it is because we are hiding our face when we should look at light and say joy. He comes to us because He is God.
He has come to us for two thousand Christmases, and He comes again on this one. If we are not afraid to look at light, if we are silent with prayer, if we say our own humble fiats to Him, if we surrender and offer ourselves, He will come and fill the waiting manger and the waiting empty space that yearns for Him alone.
After all, He has come before. Nothing stops Him now.
What Mary did is the hardest and most impossible of all things; and that is why we need Mary. She had no less fear, and possibly more, but she gave it all, with her will, to the God who made her. Mary does not teach us easy things, but she teaches us necessary things. And what is most necessary is her one word: Fiat.
Help me Lord; I do not know how to do that.
That's but a piece of it... so please read the whole thing... and take a quiet moment to watch and listen to the video there, it is incredibly beautiful.
Do it.
Be glad for it.
Carry on.