According to psychology of unconcious, ten percent of the human soul is conscious. This refers to that which we see, know, and control. But ninety percent is unknown. One part, perhaps thirty percent, is subconscious. This is the part which is just a little below the surface of consciousness and we have some idea of what happens there. Sixty percent of a person’s soul, though, is unconscious, is a dark basement, and is totally unknown to us.

Today in particular, as we approach the end of the year together – in about twenty-four hours we’ll enter the new year – the reading offers us two passages which are much needed.
In the second verse, we read: As it is written in the Prophets, behold, I send My messenger before Your face, who will prepare Your way before You. When the fullness of time had come, the hour of the incarnation of the Son of God, God sent His messenger – in this particular case, John the Forerunner – to prepare the way through which Christ will later pass.