Reflect: “Don’t be afraid of the hole in your heart.” If you had a physical hole in your heart, you would need to get that fixed. Today’s video is a reminder that we aren’t created with something missing. We were created for love. We were created for Jesus, and he wants to fill us today.
Share: Write down ten things you are thankful for today. Advent is a great time to reflect on how God continues to be faithful and pour out his blessings upon us. Share one of those things you are thankful for with a friend.
Pray: Pray the Litany of Trust in the morning and at night. Download it here.
Watch today’s video featuring Sr. Elizabeth, CFR.
Reflect: “Lay all your cares about the future trustingly in God’s hands, and let yourself be guided by the Lord just like a little child…” – St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross. Today, try to surrender every fear and worry you have to the Lord. Children are carefree because they trust and love. Let the Lord you in a new way today.
Reflect: Let’s be honest… we may sometimes struggle with a sneaking fear that “God loves me because He has to love me, and not because I am actually lovable or because He actually finds me delightful.” But God willed us for our own sake (CCC 356), choosing to make us in His image, a unique and unrepeatable reflection of His glory. God is, as St. Catherine of Siena put it, “crazy-in-love with us”. Jesus, the Adorable One, took on human flesh to reveal to us our worth and lovableness. He freely chose to become human – to feel what we do, to experience what we experience, even to look like us – to save us from believing the lie that we are unlovable.
Reflect: What’s coming next? We live such busy lives that we move from one thing to the next without stopping to reflect. Advent is a time of preparation, but it’s a different type of preparation. It’s not about preparing for an event or a thing. It’s preparing for Jesus in a new way and taking time to look at your relationship with him.
Reflect: “Man cannot live without love…he remains a being that is incomprehensible to himself, his life is senseless, if he does not encounter love, if he does not experience it, if he does not participate intimately in it…” Words of St. John Paul II the Great. Words we know, in the heart of our hearts, are true. But how do we let Love in? Meet us in the real stuff of our lives? All we have to do is ask. Love is waiting to hear from you.