Advent
Advent
Waiting
in the gathering gloom.
Peering pensively into misty,
menacing skies, swirling overhead,
an anxious foreboding fills this room.
The evening darkness
visits our earth earlier
these December afternoons,
swooping down, smothering,
clinging to lurking concrete,
adding a splash of dull grey,
melancholy descends.
As another Advent Day ends
The rain joins the festivities.
Dampening our busy activities.
Advent joy is challenged to make an appearance.
To bring a calm, a much-needed sacred sense.
Evening prayer begins,
Time honoured words intoned
“O God come to my aid”
from heaven quickly return,
embrace these shivering bones,
straighten the paths, clear the wilderness.
Give me a heart that desires the pursuit of holiness.
Advent a melody of encounter,
as the expectant soul dances with winter.
Welcoming the holy birth of the Saviour,
once revealed at Bethlehem, in the humble stable manger.
Fr Patrick Brennan 2023 December ©
Source: http://humblepiety.blogspot.com/2023/12/advent_18.html
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