Wednesday 3rd Week of Advent A 2025

We are a week away from celebrating Christmas.

We have made our way through the first part of Advent.  Hopefully, we have slowed down and reflected on where our life is headed. Asked ourselves are we closer to Jesus Christ now than we were last year?

 

 Has Jesus and his commandments to love God above all and love others as ourselves become a bigger part of our life.

 

That was the assignment..

 

Our goal as believers is to always grow closer to God, always seeking to bring him into our work, our hearts. Into what we do and what we say so that we always reflect his love.

 

Has our prayer life grown? Have we talked to the Father as we would a loving Dad who is there for us? We should and he is.

 

Have we asked Mary, our mother to listen to our struggles and pray for us?

 

Does Jesus walk beside us everyday so that we can feel his presence. My friends this is the only way to live…to keep Jesus close to us and his Spirit inside us.

 

True joy and peace and love only come from a close relationship where he permeates all we do.

 

So, this last week while the world is racing and in a hurry to get things done, let’s slow down, way down. I was listening to someone one speaking recently who said, love is not in a hurry. It is always slow. Unhurried.

 

We should never hurry our prayers for they are the most important part of our days. If we don’t have time for prayer each day we are too busy and haven’t really given ourselves to Jesus Christ and his mercy. Busyness and being in a hurry is not from God at all. For love is not in a hurry and God is love.

 

Let’s slow down and focus on the day, this day, this moment. Not tomorrow or next week.

But where we are today and live in the now. Each person we meet should have our undivided attention. Reach for the phone less. Pull back from social media and the constantly available babble of influencers who we don’t need influencing us. Our primary influencer should be Jesus himself. Everything else falls in later, maybe.

Slow down this advent and listen to what God wants for us in the moment.

 

This year is wrapping up. The new year is coming. Christmas is almost here.

 

But today is more important for that is where God is and our hope lives.

 

 Are we doing his will this moment?

 

 We must keep that focus on the now as we move toward the celebration of the birth of Christ. One day at a time. One moment. One God. The one who loved us and came to be with us.