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Silent night, holy night!
Shepherds quake at the sight!
Glories stream from heaven afar;
Heavenly hosts sing Alleluia!
Christ the Savior is born!
Christ the Savior is born!

Rejoice, for our Savior will soon be born. May He be born in our hearts.

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Ice Skating at Forest Park January 4th, 2009

WHAT: Life Night, Ice Skating , How to catch a polar bear.
WHEN: January, 4, 2009
TIME: 2pm – 5:30pm
WHERE: We will car pool from St.Cletus to Forest Park in St.Louis. Meet at the parish at 2pm.
PICK-UP: 5:30pm St.Cletus parish hall
WHO: All High School Students
COST: $9 includes skate rental (extra money for hot chocolate)
Questions: Call Bob at 314-623-5258 or email hamer@saintcletuschurch.org

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“Do whatever He tells you.”

These are Mary’s last words in the Bible. I saw this on someone’s facebook a few weeks back and it has kept coming back to me since then. “Do whatever He tells you.” I think this is one of those things that we all know we need to do as Catholics, but it is a lot easier said than done. I know many times in my life, I’m like well, I really would like to do this God, but it is a pretty far stretch, it’s going to take me out of my comfort zone, I don’t know people are going to react, the list goes on and on. I could probably justify just not doing many things God asks of me, but he wants more. He resides in the very depths of each soul and he wants our heart. He wants our hearts to long for him, to want to be with him, to live for him. God doesn’t ask us to stretch ourselves so that we can fail, God doesn’t lose battles. If we trust in him and perservere, we can take on anything he puts before us and do whatever he tells us to do. In this time of Advent, as we continue to prepare our hearts for Christ’s coming, what a perfect time for us to do whatever He tells us.

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So during my boredom this evening, I decided to go read from 97secondswithgod.com. It’s a blog I came across earlier this year, and I’m glad I did. It enables to me think often of my life with God. There are a TON of entries posted before I came across it though and taking the time to go through them is at times difficult. But, as I said earlier, in my boredom this evening, I happened to click on the tab and the title “go before you know” stuck out to me for some reason. It was an awesome read, so I’ll post it here for you and then give a little of my thoughts if I feel up to it…

In Genesis 45, Joseph asked his long lost father to come to move to Egypt. This is no easy feat given the size of Jacob’s family. Plus he owned a ton of livestock and moving goats by foot has to be an unpleasant experience. In chapter 46: 1-4 it says:

“So Israel (Jacob) set out with all that was his and when he reached Beersheba, he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.

And God spoke to Israel in a vision at night and said, “Jacob! Jacob!”

“Here I am,” he replied.

“I am God, the God of your father,” he said. “Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there. I will go down to Egypt with you, and I will surely bring you back again.”

Note the progression of events here. Jacob sets out with all his goats in verse 1 and then eventually in verse 4 God says “I will go down with Egypt with you.” Not the other way around. If I were Jacob I would have thought “That’s great to hear God because I’ve kind of already left.”

Jacob had to move his entire family, everything he had ever known to set out for a strange land with only his faith in his relationship with God to back him up. No detailed plans, no vision, no promise of success.

Why doesn’t God always give us an instructional sheet for the journey ahead? I think it’s because He’s brilliant and knows that if I had a sheet, that sheet would eventually become my god. When times got tough, I wouldn’t cry out to the one true God in confusion, I would look at my sheet and trust in it for clarity. I’d make an idol out of His instruction and put my faith in the piece of paper instead of Him.

I don’t know if you have a big goat move ahead of you, but if you do, don’t think that God isn’t with you just because He hasn’t delivered clear directions. His silence might be the greatest sign that He wants you take the first step long before He’ll tell you the next one after that.

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