Third Sunday of Advent

God is a Lover who wants to be Loved

The Lord, your God, is in your midst, a mighty saviour; he will rejoice over you with gladness, and renew you in his love; he will sign joyfully because of you, as one sings at festivals. (Zephaniah 3:17)

Life is a God-given opportunity to become who we are, to affirm our own true spiritual nature, claim our truth, appropriate and integrate the reality of our being, but most of all, to say "Yes" to the One who calls us the Beloved.

The unfathomable mystery of God is that God is a Lover who wants to be loved. The one who created us is waiting for our response to the love that gave us our being. God not only says, "You are my beloved." God also asks: "Do you love me?" and offers us countless chances to say "Yes". That is the spiritual life: the chance to say "Yes" to our inner truth. The spiritual life, thus understood, radically changes everything... at every point in the journey there is the choice to say "Yes" and the choice to say "No."

Am I drifting in my Spiritual Life? What do I need to do this Advent to revive my commitment to say "Yes" to God daily?