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2nd Week of Advent
Prepare the Way
Everything we do can prepare the way for God. For God makes his home among us, and Jesus is born to dwell within each of us. In love and friendship, there is a meeting place of God and people, as in the love and the promise of Mary there was space for God to become one of us.
In our human love we prepare the way for the love of God, in our human forgiveness we prepare the way for the forgiveness of God, in our human compassion we prepare the way for the compassion of God. Our human work for the betterment of people prepares the way from the justice of God and our human way of reconciliation for the grace and reconciliation of God and his people.
In love, forgiveness and compassion we are sharing in the very life of God. Without our co-operation there can be no justice of God, no reconciliation of God, no speaking of the word of God, for without our voice the word of God is silent. Advent invites us to chose love, to commit our lives to prepare the way for God.