
Are We a Voice Crying in the Wilderness?
Advent is about waiting. We are learning to be patient. We are learning the difference between being nice and being in God’s love.
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Advent is about waiting. We are learning to be patient. We are learning the difference between being nice and being in God’s love.
God is like the lover who just can’t see your point of view.
The light of the fire he was revealed to others as a follower of Jesus and in that same light he was revealed to himself in a way that he does not like.
I have seen the work that is required to turn a sword into a plowshare – the brute force and heat required to re-craft a spear-head into a pruning hook. But it can be done. Weapons can be re-made. The question Advent asks is this: “What tools of war in your life – in my life – need to be heated in the forge of prayer and then hammered on the anvil of determination- re-made into tools for peace?”
We have the promise of not retribution, but mercy coming to live among us, judging with righteousness and equity the cause of the oppressed.
Our Lenten Journey isn’t over yet, but the time is short. Make final preparations!
What if we dared to believe enough in our savior that we could welcome the helpless of today into our midst? What if we dared to believe in the radical grace we receive from God enough to embody a glimmer of that grace into the world?
“Though the Lord may give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your Teacher will not hide himself any more, but your eyes shall see your Teacher. 21And when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left, your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, ‘This is the way; walk in it.’
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