Fr. John's Reflection

Parishioner “Gifts” As we end this Advent Season in the anticipation of the Jesus’ coming, we all search on how to receive Our Infant Savior anew in our hearts and then respond in His love. The prayer written by Mary Lou Wood can speak to us as it does to God. This Christmas, let us complete ourselves in the Lord, let us live in our vulnerability of not knowing but continuing to desire Him in the act of becoming. Blessed Christmas, Fr. John How Do I Learn To Live? Is this it? Is this my surrender to You? Is this my life? Am I truly learning that this is it? The wait for You is the nagging ache in my heart and soul and nothing I can ever do will ease that angst? I have searched, as you know, for activity, for involvement, and sometimes that does occur but in reality the ache, the desire never ceases, never leaves me. I feel I have never done enough, but can anyone do enough? My enough will not occur in this life and, I believe, I truly pray, that the next part of my existence will see the fullness of who I really am and what I can really do. By Mary Lou Wood