Luke 3: 1-6
In the midst of our busyness, a sight or a sound can call us back to our senses. A flick of the TV remote or a quick turn of the heel can speed us back the upsetting scene on screen or street. God calls, we ignore, even poor old John the Baptist tends to get the same treatment at Advent. We’ve already made him look kind of decently scruffy in art, when in all probability you could probably have smelt his camel hair clothing before you heard him.
His lonely voice calls again. What needs levelling, what high and mighty attitudes need adjustment? Often people complain that God is seemingly absent in their lives, that prayer is lifeless and God seems remote, uncaring, indifferent. If you’re looking to the empty pews that may be around you, worry only about the seat you occupy. Ask yourself; “what is blocking God’s path to you?” God doesn’t choose to be distant, we do. Is his “absence” the result of our fear, our resistance to change, our desire to be in control, our cynicism, our inability to love.
There is always hope, because God made you. Over and not out.
“I am quite certain that the One who began this good work in you will see that it is completed..” (2nd reading)
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