If you’re waiting on God, do what waiters do. Serve! In light of Advent Season beginning today, a season of waiting, we await the arrival of the Newborn King. We wait for Christmas!!!
Waiting and serving are superpowers.
Isn’t that what we see from superheroes or Saints? Friendly neighborhood laborers making the world a better place, more bearable, and safe from evil doers. Serving while they have their own goals. Focused on a mission while awaiting their destiny.
Waiting is part of the Christian pilgrimage toward Heaven
In the meantime, we are out here completing side quests like a video game. Another problem to solve. This is starting to be the new entertainment with WWE-like theatrics. When talent, charisma, and creative story lines create the most interesting episodes. We will be pitching sponsorship for the next season soon.
You have to create your own paradise. Build your own sanctuary, so that when you return from the rodeo, you have a place to be inspired. Plow your field so that when the next rain storm arrives, you reap the abundant harvest. Condition your body so that when the next competition is set, you will have superpowers that only superheroes possess. In order words suffer now, embrace the resistance and turbulence now, because when things get smooth it becomes even more glorious. That’s how a superhero learns to flyyyyy!
If you have acquired certain skills: If you are calm, know how to regulate your emotions, have super human strength and stamina, have wisdom, championship experience, strive for virtue (ultimate superpower), and have people that cheer for you and look up to you, then are you even human? If you win all the time, are you God’s favorite? Being a superhero is a calling. God equips the called with super human powers.
I heard the other day, “When you are full of love (superpower), it confuses people who are full of sh!t.” Get your sh!t together! Because the next superhero story could be someone that overcame their past, made a turning point, had a conversion and sought Christ. Quit trying to find happiness or superpowers outside of Christ.
“It is Jesus that you seek when you dream of happiness; He is waiting for you when nothing else you find satisfies you; He is the beauty to which you are so attracted; it is He who provoked you with that thirst for fullness that will not let you settle for compromise; it is He who urges you to shed the masks of a false life; it is He who reads in your heart your most genuine choices, the choices that others try to stifle.
It is Jesus who stirs in you the desire to do something great with your lives, the will to follow an ideal, the refusal to allow yourselves to be ground down by mediocrity, the courage to commit yourselves humbly and patiently to improving yourselves and society, making the world more human and more fraternal.”
-Pope John Paul II
Saint John Paul II was a Marvel Comic Book Hero in the 80’s.
If you’re waiting on God, do what waiters/superheroes do. Serve! This looks like a job for…🦸♂️ because like Fr. Mike Schmitz mentioned, while we are waiting this Advent season or any other season of our lives, the question we must ask, are we waiting well? The destination matters, but so does how we get there. How can we wait well?
<Power Rangers ringer goes off>
I’ll be back!! I have a community to serve, workouts to conquer, and a beauty to date.
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