“We must, then, prepare our hearts and bodies for the battle of holy obedience to his instructions.”
Question for Meditation: How do you prepare to listen?
Category: Obedience
“Advent… leads to a growing inner stillness and joy allowing me to realize that the One for whom I am waiting has already arrived and speaks to me in the silence of my heart.”
Question for Meditation: What do you hear in the silence of your heart?
“It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.”
Question for Meditation: Do you love those you obey? Do they love you?
“It is ours to determine how to wait. And Advent dawns upon our hearts and souls each year to educate us in the art, the bliss, the peace, the pain, and the wonder of waiting.”
Question for Meditation: What do you experience in waiting?
“Even when [a person] sleeps and seeks repose, to calm his mind and rest his body, so as not to fall sick and be incapacitated from serving God, his sleep is service of God.”
Question for Meditation: Make sure to take time to rest today.
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart, on your own intelligence do not rely; in all your ways be mindful of him, and he will make straight your paths.”
Question for Meditation: What do you need to let go of today?
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
Question for Meditation: Take a deep breath. Everything will be accomplished.
“We’re born to ask questions. It’s a tragedy to go through life not asking. God wants us to ask.”
Question for Meditation: What questions do you need to ask?
“Mary said, ‘Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord. May it be done to me according to your word.’”
Question for Meditation: What was the last “yes” you gave to someone asking something of you?
“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action.”
Question for Meditation: What life force do you allow to translate through you?
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