MEDITATION Creation is something only God can do. No other being, not even the highest angel, can bring something out of nothing. God created the world and crowned it with human life out of his own infinite goodness; he was not looking to acquire something but only to give something: his life, his beatitude, his love. Our first parents, Adam and Eve, believed the devil’s lie and turned away from the one who already wanted them to be “like gods,” the one who had made them in his own image. And out of fear and shame they hid from the very one who forgives, the one who says, “Behold, I make all things new.” But God writes straight with crooked lines: “O truly necessary sin of Adam, destroyed completely by the Death of Christ! O happy fault that earned so great, so glorious a Redeemer!” (Easter Exsultet). This first Advent station directs us to glorify God for the wonderful gift of existence, and even more so for our redemption, for we are made new by Jesus Christ, the new Adam, born of Mary, the new Eve.