I ended the service at Drumchapel Essenside URC with these brilliant words from Roddy Hamilton:
let us go out
with quiet boldness,
tender daring,
simmering anger,
impatient justice.let us go out with provocative peacemaking
into advent,
enough to crack open the moribund and dry faith of the world
in it’s spent and necrotic cravings.let us go out with a message
that disturbs the world with restless whispers
about god and incarnation,
goosebumps and justice.let us go out
and muffle our laughter
behind an unnerving truth
heaven-shaped
sharp-edged
waiting to crack it all open
and let the glory through
with a living word:
jesus
Restless whispers. Goosebumps and justice. That’s what Advent is for me.
Let the waiting begin.
Fabulous words, Stewart!J
Aren’t they just. I wish they were mine!!!