Advent Reflections and Resources
27 November 2016
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the Christmas infant bonny, undemanding,
and serene – advertising's dream; nothing like
the firebrand we felt compelled to quench
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ripples on the mere
patterns in the sand
circles in the grain
cloister in the heart
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A birth confounding will to power:
Innocent hope as ever sought...
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tonight there's a moon
with advent appeal
it has a
wondrous roundness
and a pale golden feel...
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Elsewhere a king is fed grapes,
fat as globes, wondering how
it would feel to swallow
the world in a single gulp.
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This time she set out
at dusk, wondering how
every tree seemed to have fallen
across her path.
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Running along the marine parade
Riding into the wind to work
And later
Holding wine cupped in the hand
In late sun...
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Beauty blossoms the landscape
of the bare heart
warming it like the breath of creatures...
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My host-mother handed on a recipe
so I would learn kitchen-words
by heart.
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as his silence sunk deeper
but his loving grew tender...
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Evasive snoozing
within my duvet cocoon...
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...the most challenging invitation of this season is twofold: to live in the present and to embrace change. That is, to drink from the sources of deep ancient wisdom able to transform us more and more into the likeness of Christ, into the likeness of God.
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