The Spirit of Advent
To keep Advent we only need to be mindful of our human reality, and mindful also of the God of inexhaustible generosity and faithfulness, always poised and ready to come to us. Advent is always with us and Jesus is born again on Earth whenever a human heart opens a little to his love.
If you want God, and long for union with him, yet sometimes wonder what that means or whether it can mean anything at all, you are already with the God who comes. If you are at times so weary and involved with the struggle of living that you have no strength even to want him yet are dissatisfied that you don’t, you are already keeping Advent in your life. If you have ever had an obscure intuition that the truth of things is somehow better, greater, more wonderful than you deserve or desire, that the touch of God in your life stills you by its gentleness, that there is a mercy beyond anything you could ever suspect, you are already drawn into the central mystery of salvation.
Your hope is not a mocking dream; God creates in human hearts a huge desire and a sense of need, because he wants to fill them with the gift of himself.Maria Boulding, The Coming of God
