You can find me over at Catholic Exchange today talking about the scary side of Advent–something I’ve been thinking about since I went on an Advent retreat last year.
“We’ve made a huge mistake. We’ve made the Incarnation safe and comfortable. We like it warm and fuzzy with soft lambs bleating as they rest on clean hay. And, yes, it is beautiful and joyful and splendid. But we’ve sanitized it and we’ve forgotten how terrifying it is that God shares our humanity and comes like a earthquake, like a fire. To shake us up, and to purify us.” Read the rest…
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Is that enough to remember? ; )
Hope your Thanksgiving was full of good things! We managed to fit three big tables in our living room (we moved the couches outside) so that everyone could sit at the same table. It was so fun and the little cousins ran wild.
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Amen. Amen. We gloss over too much of what is most important…
My dad always reads Yeats’ poem “The Second Coming” at Advent/Christmas time, and your words remind me of that. Here’s part:
“The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?”
(http://www.potw.org/archive/potw351.html)
Amazing article, Haley. Gave me shivers! Yes!!
The article was sobering, and beautiful. I find myself praying for his coming, speaking John’s words, “Come quickly, come quickly”. But almost every time, I think that I don’t yet know what I ask. His coming is welcome, but it will be terrifying. Even in the reverence and terror, I yearn for it still.
Wonderful article, Haley.
Time for some good Sufjan Stevens advent music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEoiM-ZQC2I
“Lord, come with fire…”