#Smooth

#Smooth is the word for the 12th day of Advent in the #AdventWord2018 online calendar that I am following this Advent season.

Linking it with yesterday's word 'rough' and the Advent theme of preparing a way, today's word 'smooth' reminds me of words from the prophet Isaiah.

Those words are quoted by gospel writers (e.g. Luke 3: 1 - 6) to describe the mission of John the Baptist who called for all obstacles to be removed that would get in the way of revealing the glory of the Lord, seen in Jesus Christ. 

Here are the words from the prophet Isaiah:

A voice cries out: 

"In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord, 

make straight in the desert a highway for our God. 

Every valley shall be lifted up, 

and every mountain and hill be made low: 

the uneven ground shall become level, 

and the rough places a plain. 

then the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, 

and all people shall see it together, 

for the mouth of the Lord has spoken." 

Isaiah 40: 3 - 5 (NRSV)

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