A Christmas-Story

Mr. Shikongo was a good Catholic; every Sunday Holy Mass. But he also prayed again and again; calling God for help in all his different difficulties...
and one day he died - as it's normal.
He imagined to walk on the way to Heaven and halfway before the Heaven's gate
St. Peter stopped him and asked: He may show him the ticket. Peter get confused.
There is finally no other way than to explain and to inform Mr. Shikongo:
Sorry - your H on the ticket means not Heaven but Hell. Mr. Shikongo was shocked.
Confused he started to defend himself: Every Sunday I attended Mass and I prayed clear and loud: I believe in God, the Allmighty, the Creator... I believe in Heaven and that God is good and that he is a real Helper...  every day I prayed the "Our-Father" and Im well aware God is in Heaven...  Now St. Peter lost patience and silenced him:
Mr. Shikongo don't you know, that God-Father together with his Son Jesus - already 2000 years ago - has gone to Bethlehem and Nazareth, but also to Jerusalem and later into the whole world; it means also to Namibia. Didn't you get the message that Jesus got this strange name "Immanuel" (God with us) - and as a baptized one,
why didn't you follow HIM ???  Mr. Shikongo - since then the Heaven is empty and God enjoys to live between the people.
Finally Mr. Shikongo was convinced: there is no other way than to turn; to go deep into Metanoia. It's the way to discover "Immanuel".

2 Peter 3.8-14: What we are waiting for is what God promised:
                      the NEW Heavens and NEW earth.

dhiladhila / think about...  As we follow the way of God (Father - Son + Holy Spirit)
                                       through history until today
                                       we discover "IMMANUEL" (God with us)
                                       and - maybe - one day - we may understand better
                                       what is meant by "Immanuel".
It's an exciting message; a new understandning of God (a new picture) and
in realizing it - a new earth is shining up -  Epiphany in Evolution...

I wish you a good ADVENT / wake up / wait actively - in the desert of today
only through people the new picture of God is emerging and therefore a new earth.