Advent-2013

�Prepare in the wilderness
a highway for our God.�
~Isaiah 40:3~

I live my Advent in the womb of Mary
And on one night when a great star swings free
From its high mooring and walks down the sky
To be the dot above the Christus 1,
I shall be born of her by blessed grace.
I wait in Mary-darkness, faith�s walled place,
With hope�s expectance of nativity.
I knew for long she carried me and fed me,
Guarded and loved me, though I could not see,
But only now, with inward jubilee,
I come upon earth�s most amazing knowledge:
Someone is hidden in this dark with me.
~Jessica Powers~

Somewhere your star-struck choir sings
As the evening unpeels our histories.
The world is here again!
I feel the breathing of yuletide fires,
The ribboned refrains of seasoned candles
And bars of voices beyond St. Stephen�s Wall.
The robin appears in a globe of joy
His carol negotiating wreaths of cloud
And tinsled cakes of snow.
We wing into the holy day
While the blinking eye of the gifting moon
Receives you at that vanishing point
On memory�s path:
Outlived by love
Alone.
~Stephen Leake~

�My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord,
for the Almighty has done great things for me.�
~Luke 1:46,49~

Wait for the Lord with courage;
be stout-hearted, and wait for the Lord.