A class of first graders was performing a Nativity play. As Joseph and Mary knocked at the door of the inn and asked for a room, the innkeeper responded: " Sorry, there is no room at the inn." But at that moment, that didn't sound right to him, so he changed the script: "Hang on. Don't go away. You can have my room." Mary is our model of saying "yes". Mary, filled with grace, was always open to God Just like the "innkeeper"in the story above, she was asked to provide room for Jesus. Her yes changed everything. In the same way, God - and our world - waits on our yeses.
O God who waits, you wait for our yeses in order to come into the rooms of our lives. Like Mary, our model of saying "yes", I recommit my life to you. "You can have my room", help me to enlarge it, to make it more and more welcoming to all in your family.
Sr. Janet Schaeffler, O.P.
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