You're listening to Catholic Sprouts, the daily podcast for Catholic kids that strives to plant seeds of faith.

Hey there, Sprouts. Today is Tuesday, December 15th, 2020.

Now, this week, the third week of Advent, we are talking about waiting well.

We've already talked about how God is here right now, not in the future, so don't skip this

moment in favor of the future. And God is doing something. God uses Advent to prepare us for

Christmas. So don't skip Advent. Now, we're going to talk today about how faith and trust

in God, those two words that kind of mean the same thing, the way we're using them today, how really trusting God and having faith in him is a vital part of waiting well.

And today we're going to take the example of our blessed mother Mary, who really knew

how to wait well. Now think about Mary. I hope that you're spending a lot of time with her this

advent as you wait for Jesus's birth. Think about all of the waiting that she went through.

Of course, she went through the regular nine

months of pregnancy, which is a beautiful time of waiting while a mother prepares to meet her

child. But there was a lot of other waiting. And oftentimes for Mary, it was waiting without

clear answers. I oftentimes reflect on how the angel told Mary that she would

have a son and he would be the son of God and he would save his people, but there wasn't any

explanation really of how that would happen. Maybe God told her those things through prayer, but if we read scripture,

it seems at least that Mary was sort of left in the dark, and yet she always trusted. She always

trusted. In fact, people in the Bible point out that she is blessed or holy because she believed that God would do what he said he would do.

That he would save his people through Jesus Christ.

So even when things looked bleak like her son was being crucified, she waited and trusted.

She didn't leap to conclusions.

She didn't get lost in despair.

...