[ Today's Readings ]
although you have hidden these things
from the wise and the learned
you have revealed them to the childlike
You call us to be childlike, Jesus. No matter how old we are or how jaded we become you call us to become like children. You want to give us grace to see the world with new eyes. You want to teach us to hope and to love as if we have never been hurt before. You want to teach us to trust as if we have never been betrayed. You want to reveal the Father to us. His goodness and love seem impossible in a world as tainted as ours. He seems abstract, impractical, like a fairy-tale. But for the childlike he is very real even in this otherwise flawed world of ours.
At present the wolf and the lamb don't get along. The leopard and the kid do not lie down together. The lion and the calf do not browse together. And if a child comes anywhere near any of that, God bless him. We can't imagine a world so turned on its head. We are adulting at way to high of a level for that.
Jesus, you give us hope. This advent you can renew in us the sense of childlike wonder and trust in the power of God to really make all things new. We do this first but not taking for granted the wonder of your incarnation.
For I say to you,
many prophets and kings desired to see what you see,
but did not see it,
and to hear what you hear, but did not hear it.
How can it be that the eternal word takes on flesh? Yet you do. If this is true, then what is to prevent the restoration of all things? Jesus, you offer grace to witness your birth with new eyes. You want us to realize ever more deeply just how amazing it is. As you become a little child we all receive the grace to be childlike. And like children, we can trust you to restore even a world as dark as ours.
There shall be no harm or ruin on all my holy mountain;
for the earth shall be filled with knowledge of the LORD,
as water covers the sea.
Let us bless the name of Jesus forever. In him is our hope. In him is the fullness of peace for ever.
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