From Different Voices

Advent Meditation

We watch and wait for you

—by Ted Yoder

Hidden God,

wherever you are

in your own kind of space,

we watch and wait for you

to startle us to wakeful newness

in this Advent season.

Come and thrust into us

the spirit of daring and courage

to make flesh on earth

a bit of the kingdom of heaven.

Come to open the inns

of our minds and hearts

to the miracles of your compassion

and purpose as Jesus demonstrated them.

Come and make your own transforming way

in the desert of our confusion

and wilderness of me and mine,

so we may walk with Jesus the hard way

of justice, mercy and peace among the people of earth.

Come and lift up the valleys

of our discouragement and doubt and denial,

and make level the mountains of our greed and pride,

so we may see your glory revealed once more

in us and in all our brothers and sisters,

from the shepherd least to the magi lofty.

Come and fulfill us through Mary’s vision

of mercy stretching to all generations,

of the proud scattered, the powerful punctured,

of the rich emptied and the poor filled,

and our lives magnifying your grace.

Come lace our songs, our shopping, our celebrations

with your mystery and strange magnificence,

and let us sense it in the small, strange stirrings

of the earth and of our hearts, now and always.

Amen.

From My Heart in My Mouth
by Ted Yoder, Copyright 2000
Published by Innisfree Press and used with permission
www.InnisfreePress.com

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