In today’s Gospel we heard how Mary was troubled when she heard the angel. What was going through her mind? Perhaps she thought: If I accept it than people will think that I am out of my mind, they will laugh at me, and they will put me on the bottom of the society. But despite that fear Mary accepted God’s will.
What would you do if today an angel would appear to you and ask of you few things? Would we say yes or no to God?
My dear Sisters and Brothers
How many times in our life we want to escape from God, from Christians responsibilities? And we escape from God because we do not have time in our life for religion, because God is not priority in our life anymore. Sometimes we are angry at God because we asked God for something, and we never received it, and we would say that God does not like us anymore!!
Once upon a time a farmer placed a weather vane on top his barn. It bore the inscription “God is loveâ€. “Does that mean, a neighbor asked that God is fickle as the wind?†“Not in the least – replied the farmer, – it means that God is love no matter which way the wind is blowing.â€
Indeed God is love; He gave us his Son whose birthday we will celebrate in the few days. But we have to remember that even though God truly loves us, we must acts as well, to accept God’s will as Mary did. And whenever we are scared to accept God’s will, let’s try to remember about Mary and Joseph. They were scared too. And we do not know if they struggled to accept God’s will, but we do know that they accepted it.
So, the message for the next few days of the Forth week of Advent is that we have to be open to God’s will, that we have to open our hearts for Jesus’ birth. Christ has to be born again in our hearts even if it is tough to live with His rules. And as Christians we have to give the good example to others, and through our deeds we will be able to open other people’s hearts for Jesus Christ. Amen.