Advent – Hope, love, joy and peace.

This week, Mrs B, our Student Welfare Officer, has been challenging us to embrace the message of Advent to prepare our hearts for the coming of Jesus again this Christmas. This week we have been filled with hope.

I include here a story of love which I have heard twice this year, the latest from my Tuggeranong Parish Priest. It’s a powerful challenge to us all.

A boy asked the father: “What’s the size of God?” Then the father looked up to the sky and seeing an airplane asked the son: What’s the size of that airplane? The boy answered: It’s very small. I can barely see it. So, the father took him to the airport and as they approached an airplane he asked: And now, what is the size of this one? The boy answered: Wow daddy, this is huge!

Then the father told him: God, is like this. His size depends on the distance between you and Him. The closer you are to Him, the greater He will be in your life! ‘The more we come closer to God the bigger God gets,’ is an invitation to each one of us to measure the strength of the bond that we have with God.

Our Christian belief and our faith help us to understand this most incredible thing about the Creator, ‘that he cares about us’, the people he created, you and me. God didn’t craft the universe in order to make us feel insignificant. He did it to display his power and show us his infinite and unconditional love. Advent is a period to strengthen our love for God and others. (Thanks Fr James)

Yours faithfully,