Our personal Advent: God comes to me: Faced with the call to wake up, we might think that it is just a matter of putting a little more effort, attention, and goodwill in our Christian life. It’s okay to neither put it, it is necessary, but it is enough nor the most important thing. It is not about what we should do but about what God does in us. The initiative is his. Love is yours. Our intervention is always second, in response to his. He is also the origin of our response, who knows and loves us, who begins the relationship by coming to meet us. When in Advent we repeat the invocation: Come, Lord! – As in the Our Father we ask, Your Kingdom come! -, in reality, we do not ask so much for the Lord to come – he is already in us – as for each one of us to understand and experience the presence and loving action of God who comes to us. And that from there arises the response to correspond to his love, to his constant coming. St. Paul invites us: "let us leave the activities of darkness and equip ourselves with the weapons of light". He means; Let us reject all manipulation of the truth, all domination of some people over others, everything that disappoints us, and threatens hope. Let us clearly assume the causes of peace, of just relations, of the dignity of all people, of the truth that sets us free, of the values of the Kingdom of God that we are already enjoying and that strengthen our hopeful wait for a God that comes to us and exceeds all our expectations.