Divine Silence...
It's Friday, and we're exhausted. It's been a long week, with late hours almost every night. This morning I'm waiting around the apt. for a delivery we missed yesterday while at the doctor's. Late last night, we had to hail a cab back to the the city center so that my wife could attend her office party. Since it's right across from the Divinity School, and I wasn't invited, I just did more work until about 10:15 last night.We're tired from concern over events that were beyond our control. Tuesday redemption was thwarted in the name of vengeance while the Christian church sat by, saying nary a word. It seems like the headlines on my homepage have been nothing but doom and gloom. People falling to earth when their parachutes didn't open, Katrina victims hungry and homeless, polar ice caps are melting, murders committed, and so on and so on. At the end of a week like this I want to yell, "Where is the good news!!!???" And then I look at my calendar. "Oh, it's Advent. The Good News is being announced even as we breathe, but I'm not listening."
As I put my head on my pillow last night, I read the following words from Augustine's Confessions. They seemed appropriate for this time of year. Relax for a minute and read them:
'Say to my soul, I am your salvation' (Ps. 34:3). Speak to me so that I may hear. See the ears of my heart are before you, Lord. Open them and 'say to my soul, I am your salvation.' After that utterance I will run and lay hold on you.'
Oh come, Oh come Emmanuel.
posted by John and Mag @ 3:41 AM
2 Comments:
Amen brother. It's so easy to lose sight of the season in the midst of the season. I'm as guilty as anyone else, and it's good to have a reminder to keep looking up rather than burying our heads in the stresses of the day.
Now get off your butt and start packing.
-- Ed
Beautiful words and reminders, John. Thank you on this Friday before Christmas Week.
Love, SLB
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