We must look upon ourselves as God's Great Creation

We must look upon ourselves as God’s Great Creation

When God said to his Word; “You must go to those we created before they fall off the earth and into a chasm of no return.”  Hence the Nativity; a human manner of making his path one filled with pain-but healing, suffering-but love for them, emptiness-but fulfillment to be with us forever.  

As we welcome the days of arrival of the very God who was before he IS, there must be a feeling of complete admiration to the potter slowly keeping his hands on the spindle of grace with his countenance shining within our clay that he is forming with patience and perfection of his dignity and holiness.

Enter the very premise of what God intended to put within the mind of our existence; a desire to search and finally discover what we were meant to accept and adhere to the simple plan that was instilled within us.  Of all the possibilities that any of us has is to find the way back to God from which we were created to have, eternally.

Finding what we originally were to have at our beginning there was instilled a pattern to believe who the Creator IS and then to learn to call him Father since a Father would never give us a stone in place of a loaf of bread; so he will never give us a harsh sign when we ask for love.  (see Mt 7: 9).  

So it is with the child to come to us as a needy baby will never forsake us and will always be there for each one in spite of life’s difficulties that could corrupt our faith and fall into Satan’s attacks.

As I mentioned before, Advent is a complete opposite of penance since we have yet to learn how sinful we had become.  That is the problem of how sin reflects our thinking that we don’t need the Son of God. 

Two specific images bring the reality of how God came to his creatures out of love.  First he was born in a stable to the poor of the world; all of us!  Second he went to Calvary and died in our place as the price we never had to pay.  Both became elements of human factors of our planet; the wood from trees to build the stable and  wood from a majestic tree which never sprouted its glory after our Lord was nailed to its structure.  Isn’t it ironic that our Lord, growing up, was a master with wood and was nailed to the very element that symbolized our freedom.

While each of us looks waiting for Jesus to be born, how many of our kind will not believe that his arrival is for our salvation; ranting and condemning others because of their own misunderstanding of why God would come for sinners.  What about me?  They seem to say.  

Ralph B. Hathaway