Today was the first day of Advent. It is a season of new beginnings and of joyful hope. There are many good articles about advent on a website I have as my home page: Catholic Online. I urge everyone to prepare themselves not just for holiday festivities, but for making preparations inside themselves, as I will try to do, and welcoming the Spirit to be reborn in each heart that celebrates the birth of Christ.
My prayer: Lord, through your Spirit we can be re-born each and every day. Let the days of the past be remembered for lessons learned. Help us to live each today moment with a Spirit of Joy that comes from knowing you are in control. Help me to empty myself of me and fill myself with you. I will to do Your Will Lord. Let your Spirit live in me and create the future that is in my highest good and in the highest good of all those who my life touches. I ask this in Jesus's name, Amen.