Year B - Second Sunday of Advent

Second Sunday of Advent - Year B

Isaiah 40, 1 - 11

Psalm 84

2 Peter 3, 8 - 14

Mark 1, 1 - 6

To go further

Details

- The rabbit is rather pressed and wishes to speed things along. But what things? The word of the bible says "It is for you that He is patient". He is patient to give you all the time to convert. The ball is in our court, in my court. But there we are, I have time for many things, but do I "take" time to convert? Nobody "has" the time, but  to "have" some, one must "take" it, and put it to one side for this task.

- With his nostrils, he breathes (fulmination no doubt) to accelerate  the melting of the ice. He sees solutions to go quicker ; solutions for God "you must do this or that", and solutions which come from himself (heat the ice). So, he passes by the wayside concerning his conversion, which  must happen inside himself. If he knew that it was he who God waited for, he who is concerned by his conversion... maybe he would see things differently? But here, he is so pressed that he uses, at the same time, his nostrils to melt the ice and his mouth to speak... How much do I resemble him?

Questions

- We forget the proverb "He who goes steady goes further". Do I wish to go further ? If so, am I going steady and how ? Enemy number 1 in the world today is the race against time. We do everything to move around more rapidly, we complain if we miss a subway connection, when there is another arriving in 40 seconds, we order online to have products delivered to us in the shortest timescales, even if it is more expensive. What is human in this? What is not human? What of it do I endorse? And the conversion, the fact to put things into question, to change? That will happen after everything else, if we have the time...