2nd Friday of Advent

2nd week in Advent -- Friday                             John 1:12-14

                             The Word Made Flesh

Words sometimes drive me crazy!

I’ve learned to use them,

to communicate thoughts,

feelings,

emotions,

ideas.

But words can be so misused,

and so noisy.

Television blaring,

radio blasting.

Commercials which insult our intelligence,

assault our contentment,

assail our values.

Whoever said,

“Sticks and stones may

 break my bones, but

 words will never hurt me,”

lied!

Yet what did God do?

Came to us,

“Word made flesh,”

John said.

Jesus came,

in the midst of our wordiness,

to utter the single Word most needed in our lives:

the divine “Yes!” to our very existence.

O Lord:

Words fill up our time, our lives, our space.  Yet words are so often empty, or hurtful, or filled with loneliness.  Help us to be open to your Word of life and love in our lives.  Refill and renew us, we pray; in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord.  Amen.