One step closer

     As we inch one step at a time, closer and closer to the great day of Celebration of Jesus's Birth, The surge of excitement and anticipation swells like a drum beat from a distant mountain, loud enough for our ears to hear. Until it is so near us as if we were standing in the stable itself. Beholding the Miracle of the Greatest day in History. The Birth of our Salvation. 

    How blessed are we to participate in a prayer that had been prayed ever since the fall of Adam and Eve? We could be roaming for 40 years in a desert. We could have been toiling and laboring from persecution. But we are not. We are here. Beholding the Sacred answer that many, many years had been said, " Please! Send us the Messiah". Even our beloved Mother Mary prayed for it. Praying that She could serve whoever would be the mother of this Holy child, unknowing that She Herself would be the Holy Mother of God.

     One step closer we go. Like the Wise Men. Day after day. Following the Star that they knew led them to their destiny. Like the shepherds in the field, running for quite some distance after being told that tonight a Savior was born.

     Let not our feet drag but walk briskly toward that stable. Let our hearts cast away all doubt that a Savior has been born. Let us rejoice in this Celebration with the Angels and the Saints. With our family. The Holy Family. As one step closer brings us to that Holy Child , to our Holy Mother Mary and to our Holy Beloved St Joseph.