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Sunday, December 4
SECOND SUNDAY OF ADVENT
Make your way
Deserts and wildernesses can be beautiful, but they have an element of danger as well. They’re good places to get lost for one thing, and in them you’re vulnerable to forces of nature that are vastly more powerful than you. Sometimes, though, you have to travel through the trackless wastes to get where you want to go, and that’s true spiritually as well. To reach the Promised Land, the Israelites had to walk through the desert; to return from Exile in Babylon they had to journey back to Jerusalem. John the Baptist called people out to the desert to repent. As you continue your Advent journey, remember that sometimes you have to walk through life’s deserted stretches to arrive at the place where God is found.
TODAY’S READINGS: Isaiah 40:1-5, 9-11; 2 Peter 3:8-14; Mark 1:1-8 (5)
“Make straight in the wasteland a highway for our God!”
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