Today’s readings invite us to look at where God chooses to dwell.

The waiting of Advent is swiftly giving way to the celebratory feel of Christmas. Hospitality is a key virtue at any time of the year, but particularly at Christmas. 

The desire to house God at a singular address was countered by God’s insistence that it actually works the other way around: The Creator built the house in which creation lives and moves and has its being.

Here are some ways you can cut through your own spiritual confusion and bewilderment this Advent in order to say yes to God.

Eternal God, your goodness endures through all generations, and nothing is impossible with you.

God becomes a human being, and the door opens for human beings to enter into the life of God, which is eternal life.

When persons are convinced that life is short . . . and that eternity is the only subject that really claims or can fill our thoughts, then they are apt to undervalue this life altogether, and to forget its real importance.  —John Henry Newman (1801-1890)