Advent 4

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Advent 4

"Cleaning Up for Christmas"
 Lord, we welcome your word, even when you tell us what we are doing is wrong.     
 
We know what it's like to get cleaned up. As Christmas draws very near, it's time to clean up the house so everything will be in order for the celebration. Cleaning takes a little time and effort, but the result is well worth it.

God takes time, if we let him, to clean us from the inside out. Ask God to forgive you for your sins. Ask God to help you love those around you. Ask God to heal any hurts or sorrows you have. God is ready to create a new and clean heart within you.
 ~~~Taken from Wake Up to Joy by Mark Neilsen 

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“One great idea of the biblical revelation is that God is manifest in the ordinary, in the actual, in the daily, in the now, in the concrete incarnations of life, and not through purity codes and moral achievement contests, which are seldom achieved anyway… We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking… The most courageous thing we will ever do is to bear humbly the mystery of our own reality.”
― Richard Rohr

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“You can’t come to God by doing it right – you come to God by doing it wrong, otherwise, you don’t fall in love with God, you fall in love with yourself.”--Richard Rohr

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“Be grateful for your sins.  They are carriers of grace.”---Tony de Mello