"Look To Me"
When Ted was very young, he would become frustrated when I was distracted away from him. At that moment, he would take my face in both of his small hands and say, "Look to me." It was his way of getting my undivided attention. It worked.
And how does the incarnation of God into our world get our undivided attention? I am sure that I am not the only person who is easily distracted. In fact, a common experiment conducted by social scientists proves it; the experiment goes like this:
Someone is greeting a long procession of people. A person is 'planted' in the line, and as this person approaches the greeter they clasp the person's hand and say, "My grandmother was killed an hour ago." Often times in this experiment the greeter responds, "Wonderful; nice to meet you" and then he continues to greet the next person.
This Christmas, my suspicious is that God wants us to"Look to Me."
Walking through Advent,
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"Attentiveness is the rarest and purest form of generosity."
Simone Weil |
