#expect
When you think about God breaking into human life, what do you expect? Earthquakes? Wind? Fire? Storm? Upheaval?
When you think about one sent from God, who comes to save, what do you expect? A strong superman? A warrior at the head of a conquering army?
What do you expect?
Advent is about preparation for God coming to our world in Jesus Christ. Today's #Advent Word on this 21st day of Advent is #expect.
When you think of Christ's coming, what do you expect?
I love Rowan William's poem on this theme, which I quote in full below:
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He will come like last leaf's fall.
One night when the November wind
has flayed the trees to the bone, and earth
wakes choking on the mould,
the soft shroud's folding.
He will come like frost.
One morning when the shrinking earth
opens on mist, to find itself
arrested in the net
of alien, sword-set beauty.
He will come like dark.
One evening when the bursting red
December sun draws up the sheet
and penny-masks its eye to yield
the star-snowed fields of sky.
He will come, will come,
will come like crying in the night,
like blood, like breaking,
as the earth writhes to toss him free.
He will come like child.
© Rowan Williams, Published in 'The Poems of Rowan Williams' (Oxford 2002 and Grand Rapids MI 2004)
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