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Monday, December 24, 2012

Day 24 - Season of Advent


I will sing of your steadfast love, O Lord, forever;
With my mouth I will proclaim your faithfullness to all generations.
I declare that your steadfast love is established forever;
Your faithfulness is as firm as the heavens.

Psalm 89:1-2

 

Divine faithfulness is at the core of our witness.  By our words, but most of all by our lives, we are to reveal God's faithfulness to the world.  The world is not interested in faithfulness, because faithfulness does not help in the acquisition of success, popularity and power.  But when Jesus call us to love one another as he has loved us, he calls us to faithful relationships, not based on the pragmatic concerns of the world, but on the knowledge of God's everlasting love.

Faithfulness, obviously, does not mean sticking it out together to the bitter end.  That is no reflection of God's love. Faithfulness means that every decision we make in our lives together is guided by the deep awareness that we are called to be living signs of God's faithful presence among us.  And this requires an attentiveness to one another that goes beyond any formal obligation.   

-          Henri J.M. Nouwen
 
 

Wishing all a Merry Christmas as we begin a new year as a community that lives out God's faithfulness.

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