How quickly we fill this season of Advent with our to do lists

Occupy our Calendars Occupy our Calendars Walter Brueggamann From Awed to Heaven, Rooted in Earth. Our times are in your hands:                 But we count our times for us:                        we count our days and fill them with us;                        we count our weeks and fill them with our busyness:                        weContinue reading “How quickly we fill this season of Advent with our to do lists”

Advent is like the hush in a theater just before the curtain rises. F. Buechner

“What is coming upon the world is the Light of the World. It is Christ. That is the comfort of it. The challenge of it is that it has not come yet. Only the hope for it has come, only the longing for it. In the meantime we are in the dark, and the dark,Continue reading “Advent is like the hush in a theater just before the curtain rises. F. Buechner”

The grace and the impatience to wait. (1994)

Advent Prayer by Walter Brueggemann from his book Awed to Heaven, Rooted in Earth In our secret yearnings                 we wait for your coming,                 and in our grinding despair                 we doubt that you will. And in this privileged place                 we are surrounded by witnesses who yearn more than do we                 andContinue reading “The grace and the impatience to wait. (1994)”