Well, here I am finally making a post. When I started this blog months ago, I was excited to share my story with those who needed to hear it. Then life got in the way. I found myself busy with my thesis and senior recital, working to maintain relationships with family and friends, and in it all, trying to keep a regular prayer life. Next thing I knew, I had graduated from university and no longer had a laptop to use. Summer arrived and I went to France for two and a half weeks. Summer ended and I went back to France for a month and a half. Now, here I am back home for a few months trying to decide what the next steps in my life need to be. I broke down and bought a laptop and decided now is the time to finally get started on this blog.
When I think about it, however, the timing is perfect. Today, we commemorated the first Sunday in Advent as we begin to prepare ourselves for the birth of the King. In addition, with Advent we begin a new church year. Just as the secular world makes New Years resolutions, we make resolutions for this Advent which we hope to carry into the rest of the church year and the rest of our lives. Maybe it's a vice we want to break or a habit we want to begin. I guess you could say one of my resolutions is this blog, beginning with this post. These resolutions we make during the Advent season remind us of the other meaning of Advent. Yes we commemorate the Advent of Christ at his birth, but we also commemorate the Advent which the world is currently in; the waiting for Christ at his final coming. In the Epistle for the Traditional Latin Mass for this first Sunday in Advent, Paul writes to the Romans, "Brethren, knowing that it is now the hour for us to rise from sleep. For now our salvation is nearer than when we believed. The night is passed and the day is at hand" (Rom. 13:11-12). This Advent, we seek to renew our commitment to Christ. Along with Saint Paul, we proclaim that, "Now is the hour." Not next year. Not next month. Not tomorrow. Now. We can't continue to put it off for we know not when he will come. As far as resolutions go, this blog is pretty insignificant and unimportant compared to the struggle for holiness. However, the fact that today I decided to sit down and write this post and renew my commitment to this page points to something so much greater. It serves as a reminder of the commitment of prayer, fasting, and giving which we seek to renew this Advent season. My commitment to this blog may fade, life may get in the way again. But, I can't let life get in the way of preparing for the Lord for life itself is at stake if I am unprepared.
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Judy Brotherton
12/2/2019 10:25:32 am
Nice, Marcus. It is important that we all remember the NOW. Don't worry about the past and tomorrow may never come. All we have is NOW. Good luck with the blog.
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