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The Lord is in our midst. He is in our midst as a man.

When the crowds come to John the Baptist and say, “What should we do?” He doesn’t say, “Ace your calc final.” He says, “Be more human.”

If we’re not careful acedemics can become our god.

We forget that our worth as a human person is not wrapped up in our GPA. Our worth is a human person is wrapped up in our God who became one of us.

Even if that boy down the hall doesn’t want to go out with you, Jesus still does.

When you go home and you go to Christmas Mass, take time to sit in the church and look at the manger scene. And put yourself in that scene, just sitting there, and look at Mary. And imagine Mary smiling at you, taking the baby Jesus out of the manger, and putting Him in your arms to hold and to kiss on the cheek. Just to see the little baby Jesus smiling at you. How happy he is to be with us as another human being so that He may take His yolk upon us. And know that his burden truly is light because with Christ we know the joy of what it is to be a human being.

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Let us turn to Mary our Mother.

Mary right now is preparing the way of the Lord. She is preparing a place for her Son Jesus to be born and a place for Him to lie after she has wrapped Him in swaddling clothes. So Mary is in that cave, that stable, making it all nice and neat, as neat as she can for Jesus to be born. Your heart is far more noble than a stable and if you invite Mary in, she will get your heart ready for Jesus to enter into it. The way she will do that is by gently pointing out to you what you should bring up in confession.  So before you go to confession, turn to Mary and say, “Mary help me. What do I need to say and then give me the grace to say it.”  By doing that you will be preparing the way of the Lord and making straight his paths.

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