Welcome
to the anticipatory Season of Advent! I
feel like my own preparations started a couple months earlier than usual, in
emotionally- and gift-wise- for the birth of my first niece. True, she was not announced to my sister by
the angel Gabriel or said to be our Savior, but she is the beginning of
something new in both my sister and brother-in-law’s lives as well as in my
own, meaning as a first-time aunt.
Boy or
girl?
What
would it be like the first time I hold her in my arms? (I have found out by now.)
Amidst
all this anxiety and excitement, I started to parallel it with Our Lady and St.
Joseph’s own anticipation as they awaited that special time when the Savior of
the world- their own baby- would be born.
What a responsibility! And yet,
during my first visit to see my own precious niece, I saw the new parents’
swiftness to heed to her little cries, and also the natural interaction between
parents and child. How beautiful!
As we
enter into this blessed season in preparation for Christmas, may we see the
sanctity of all human life. Because,
with them, the world will never be the same.
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