Taking Time

A good soup or a good spaghetti sauce need time to simmer for all the flavors to blend. We often say that preparing these dishes the day before and letting them sit overnight helps them to taste better. Time is needed. So too with our spiritual lives. That's why each year we take the time in Advent, nearly four weeks, to be attentive to our need to simmer, to allow our longing for God to bubble and stir within. Today we read about the call of St. Andrew who immediately left his fishing nets to follow the call of Jesus, a call to become something more than just a fisherman, but to be a "fisher of men." The next three years saw Andrew grow until he could carry the message of Jesus to the Gentiles and even give his life for it. We all have the potential to become something, someone MORE that who we are at this moment. If we listen today and the rest of Advent, what amazing things will we hear? As we end the month of November, let us ask the Holy Souls, who have heard and answered their call, to help us hear ours. Let us take the time to simmer and bubble.
Bro. Rene