The nearness of Divine Presence in our daily journey is a theme from the texts today in the Roman Catholic Lectionary. The passage from the Book of the Prophet Isaiah is a lament based on recall of past days knowing the closeness of God and a realization among the returned exiles from Babylon after 539 BCE that they had drifted away from a daily communion with God. Friar Jude Winkler comments on the need for our hearts to be converted by an intervention of God because we realize that we cannot do it on our own. Our impatience may contribute to our inability to see that, as Don Schwager puts it, we not only watch for Christ but we watch with Christ. Dr Helen Hunt finds the gift from God in the freedom to be as children in the things which matter most. Paul gives thanksgiving for the life of the community of Corinth as he reminds them of the living testimony of service, preaching and instruction through which he prepared them to await the coming of Christ. The spark that we need to convert lament to joy, impatience to patience, concern to peace, fear to Love and selfishness to service is around us as many prepare to celebrate Incarnation, God with us, through Advent prayer, song and worship. Our desire, like the Psalmist to hear His voice and see His face may be in that invitation to join in the Advent preparations by people close to us.
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