Man and woman...

Letter to the men and women in Advent

Dear men and women:
I have heard your cry of Advent.
Is before me.
Your cry continually hit my door.
Today I want to talk to you for repienses your call.
Today I want to say: Why God questions?
What does God expect?
What has come to seek and to see in the desert?

Listen to your God, woman and man of Advent:
"Do not call the door of a god that does not exist
of a god than you know ...
If you wait ... Open to the surprise of God coming,
and not the god that you make yourself ...

You, man and woman, all have
always the same temptation:
making a god in your own image.
I tell you, I God of the living,
I am a God beyond your inventions.

Ye out to see where God is ...
I say, "here is" but you see,
and you feel discouraged
because God is not where you have been told ...
And God is alive, but you
United have no mentality:
no you discover God in simplicity.
I think simple is too little
that there is God.
Understand this: I, the Lord God,
I'm in the simple and small ...

Men and women of today and always:
leaves room to your God in your heart.
I can only be born and grow where my word is received.
Do you stay calm, doing-what to do-
because by doing the usual things-
avoiding the newness of the Gospel.

But I tell you that your heart is closed,
and your eyes unable to see the road
where I come.
Do not defend yourself like you always do.
Do not hide under empty rituals.
Man and woman, if I wait,
you make me leave the road
and get in the way
I point at the mouth of the prophets.
Open your heart to my word.
I, your God, will speak.

P. Javier Leoz