smooths and soothes

Friday December 14^th Luke 3 : 3 He went into all the country around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. 4 As is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet:  "A voice of one calling in the desert, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for him.  When a King was coming to town, the town’s people went out of the way to make the road presentable.  It was time to pick the stones out of the path and fill in the ruts, take the edge off the steep hills and use it to fill in the gullies at the bottom, a time to make straight the paths.  Advent is a time to clear the path to our hearts.  Prayer is the way we pick up the stones and fill in the ruts, mellow out the peaks and fill in the gullies.  As with any road maintenance, it is ongoing.  Left unattended, the troubles of life tend to produce potholes in anyone’s road to the heart.  It’s the adversaries’ way of trying to trip us up.  Prayer smooths the path and soothes the soul and makes straight the path to the heart created to love the Lord.