Our Lord presents our “road map” to satisfaction. It is not a straight path, and there will be detours.
I suppose Walt Disney produced “happy” stories to compensate for his difficult past. Don’t we all?
Sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you about your destination.
We have been expecting him, but God in his goodness decides all events, especially those where our mere mortal beings fail miserably.
He sent his son to be among us … not in some castle, not in a mansion, not in a place overflowing with temptations and excess.
The secular world will do what it does, and it certainly seems to be hostile to faith life as we “progress”.
The One to come, The One we await, is to be a child. But, The Child will have power mightier than any earthly army.
We will know not the day nor the hour of our meeting with Him, but we will have signs …