Anticipating

In this Advent season, let us go out in the darkness and look for the star, for it surely is shining.  The light of God has never stopped shining, beckoning us to look, to follow, and to believe that it is most certainly shining for us.  We have a journey to walk.  We have a story to share.  We have a life to live.  We have these moments in our every day lives that can become moments that impact eternity.  We are the shepherds in the fields, tending our lives, doing the ordinary, thinking that what we do doesn't really matter...and yet a star appears.  We have to choose whether we pay attention or not, whether we leave the ordinary to see something extraordinary.  

We are the wise men.  We have gifts that are worth much. We have voices and abilities and resources.  And we are called to offer them to our King.  Will we hoard them, bury them, or let them lie dormant?  Or will we journey to give them back to our King?  We are Joseph...unsure and asked to do hard things that we don't understand.  Will we walk away when it gets hard, or will we obey and see what God does?  We are Mary.  We hold something incredible within us.  We ponder it.  We marvel at this gift within us. But do we keep it to ourselves, thinking it's ours...it belongs to us...or do we share it with the world?

Their story is our story.  How will we respond?