First Sunday of Advent (B) 2020
INTRO: In this vastly-used technological world most of us either KNOW ABOUT or HAVE TRULY EXPERIENCED the computer CRASH!!!
The computer screen ALL OF A SUDDEN goes DARK!!!! And the threat of losing a project or whatever we have been working on MAY BE LOST!!!!!
We get stunned.
We are left frustrated.
This could be a VIRUS in the system… or a power surge ….. But in essence EVERYTHING STOPS and now there is the need for a computer technician to be called in either remotely or physically.
The last time this happened to me…. I heard these words from the computer fixit person…..
“It’s time to update your system!”
“It’s time to update your system!”
But, what about today ??? First weekend of Advent ??? during a pandemic that we have never had before ???
Is it time to update your system!”
Anytime, typically can be good to do this UPDATING, but Advent can be seen as this opportunity as it inaugurates a NEW liturgical YEAR to learn from Jesus.
Our lives constantly change and turn, whether we are ready or not, whether we comprehend what is happening or not especially in this COVID-19 time and these political times.
JESUS does say … “WATCH”, but don’t sleep!!!! DO SOMETHING about yourselves.
Perhaps we do need to UPDATE ourselves????
Perhaps, we may need to STOP, to a degree, living the way we were, to evaluate our anxieties, frustrations, impatience, and live with HOPE instead of anger, despair and judgement????
What good does it do to cause FRICTION, between each other in these anxious times???
That simply isn’t living as JESUS did.
UPDATE:
– how we speak to one another and be KIND.
– gain a new healthy routine for eating or drinking
– pray more each day….
But the BIGGEST thing is speaking kindly at all times.
“It’s time to update your system!”
CONCLUSION
How do we do this …. ???
Isaiah says in our FIRST READING:
“Oh Lord, you are our father;
We are the clay, you are the potter:
We are all the work of your hands.”
Live the way God wants you to live and not the way of anger, judgement, and