Time
Once
A ticker tape concept
Ever forward
Yearning for the next moment, day, season Barely noticing the busy years
With never enough hours
Then we begin
To spend time looking backwards
Fearing the gaps in
In the ticker tape
God calls us to let go of time
Surrender
Our time
Our moments
Cling not to the ordinary
Or anxious worries of the day
But reach beyond
the linear
into advent To live in Christ’s time Jesus came
Died…. Rose…. And we await His coming again.
each year, traditions call
so we decorate
with “christmas STUFF” listening to
“christmas music” to get us in the right “christmas spirit”
without them
are we called in?
can we hear the spirit lifting us out of the ordinary?
decorate our minds, O God
with silence
Avent is more than the journey to Christmas
it is the retelling of the story
as in interfaces with our stories
christ came out of the darkness of Mary’s womb
into and to be Light
My hope is that we can together look into the Light
and shine some peace
within and around
longings of the heart
tug deep within
hear me
know me
searching for connection
in Love; we need not journey alone
there is a mystery in the journey
letting go of the routine
expecting the unexpected
moments unfold
new
there we can embrace the sacred
in faces known and unknown
each day a new map is laid out
gazing backward
the visible road can be charted
turning our eyes to the One
the next step
becomes a mystery of faith
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