4th Sunday of Advent

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Come to do Your Will. 

Back in the day,

Bethlehem was smaller than small. 

Not even largest enough to be a clan,

In the tribe of Judah. 

And yet from the most insignificant of all,

Came the Messiah of the entire world. 

Nothing and no one is too small for God. 

Does it get any smaller than Lostant, Wenona, Toluca and Minonk!

But that doesn’t matter. 

Do not underestimate the great things God can do here. 

Because God likes to work with small things. 

In ancient Jerusalem they would bring animals to offer for sacrifice to God

And they used to think the bigger the better. 

As if God was hungry and needed bulls and goats

To satisfy Him. 

But the letter to the Hebrews tells us

That God does not need Bulls and Goats

And doesn’t delight in these kind of offerings and sacrifices. 

What God delights in is a soul that desires to do His Will. 

That means that anyone can make God happy. 

Great or small

Powerful or weak

Rich or poor

Because what God delights in most is a heart that seeks to do His Will. 

And this is what makes the Virgin Mary Holy. 

She sought to do the Will of God. 

She did not come from money or power or fame. 

Nazareth was nothing to talk about or visit. 

But God looked down from on high upon the world

And saw one soul

One heart 

Whose only desire was to do His Will. 

And there He came to descend and dwell

In her heart and in her womb. 

And from that solitary soul came the savior of the world. 

All God wants is a heart that seeks to do His Will. 

And then God will do great things in them!