2023-12-08 Heaven Everywhere

Heaven EverywhereFrancesca Battistellihttps://youtu.be/WmPcMJrTL3Q?si=ak9KGN222o51s7ZjGood morning, family, in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen. It's the grace that we show to a world that needs hope. It's giving our lives, knowing they're not our own. It's the joy that we feel and the love that we share. There's a little bit of heaven everywhere. Hallelujah, hallelujah, jesus. I thank you in a special way for Christmas decorations, for all of the ways that we are able to decorate and make things more beautiful. Thank you for beauty and art that you've given us in your divine image, and just help us to remember how far, how infinitely far, you have raised us above the animals in your divine image. By giving us your divine image, a bird might make a nest, or a beaver might make a dam that we might call beautiful, and it might even have a red ribbon in it. But the red ribbon would only be there by chance. No bird or beaver ever placed a red ribbon intentionally and purely for decoration. Help us to make the world around us more beautiful by sharing the grace that you give us. Please refill our cups to overflowing with your grace today so that we have it to share with others, and help us to give our lives to the work that you have given us to do and to the people around us. Help us to be a light in dark places. Help us to know how beautiful you are, with all of your power and glory, that you do not coerce us, but please lead all of us back to you again today. Help us to freely choose to love and to follow you. Help us to know you and see you as you truly are and to accept the infinite value that you have placed on us by your love and sacrifice for each one of us. Help us to love and sacrifice for one another in your great name, jesus, and in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. I love you so much!