Evening: Psalms 12, 13, 14; Amos 3:12 – 4:5; Luke 20:19-26
I love cartoons of ragged prophets carrying billboards predicting catastrophe. This Advent season is characterized by dramatic prophecies of the demise of twisted human systems. Before something new and redemptive is born, we name the evil that the new beginning confronts. If we just skip quickly to the celebration of a new birth, we may find that the unacknowledged thing that needed to die comes back to bite us. In one wonderful cartoon, the prophet carries this billboard, ‘The beginning is nigh!’ To live in hope is to know: we cannot rush that better Day, but it is surely coming.
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