The image on the slide screen was cavernous and beckoning. As the gathering in the San Pedro chapel took in the translucent greens and blues of the watercolor, we heard its artist, Sister Doris Klein, C.S.A., offer these words: “In the cave of our hearts…in the fabric of our lives…in the soul of our earth…you continue, O God, to be born!”

Sister Doris held the opinion, she said, that Christ was born in a cave. “We all carry a cave,” she reflected, “a hidden place within us, into which God longs to be born.”

She told us that Advent is a season to enter that place, to turn inward and encounter the God who seeks to emerge through us.

from In Wisdom’s Path: Discovering the Sacred in Every Season