“God touches us with a touch that is emptiness and empties us. He moves us with a simplicity that simplifies us.”
New Seeds
Last week I wrote about getting ready for the coming of the Christ child and ended my thoughts offering to praise God instead of thinking that I knew how to get ready.
This week I want to share with you the ways in which God has been simplifying my Advent.
I was invited on Tuesday to go and hear the Baltimore Choral Arts concert of sacred music and readings. The beauty of the Basilica and the music transported me into a place of deep adoration.
Saturday evening we went to the liturgy of lessons and carols at the University of the South, and again deep silence and soaring music invited me to remember that adoration is perhaps the most significant aspect of greeting the Christ child at any season and any time.
Adoration is the quiet yet insistent attention that we offer to the Beloved One.
It is the love that grows out of deep intimacy and thankfulness.
Adoration is the intention to will one thing-a love for God.
Adoring God is simple, but I make it complicated.
I want to be in charge of my adoration as well as all the other things that I do, but God invites me to become empty—to become still.
To come near and adore God-
as a baby in a manger, as a man along the road, as a Savior crucified and risen.
There is no end to the ways that God comes to me. Or to you.
Come Let Us Adore Him!
To inspire your advent adoration listen to the choir at King’s College
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