Advent 2 - Year C
Malachi 3:1-4
"Malachi" means messenger. Might you adopt that as your middle name?
There are various traditions equating the messenger with Ezra (a Levitical renewal) and with Elijah (a prophetic covenant tradition). On the whole, we view the impetus for a messenger is more prophetic than priestly even though more words are given to the priestly option.
To follow in the train of such a messenger as Malachi is to accept the power that has been given to remember a covenant of relationship that has been broken but can be restored. This power is to focus on that which heals and restores. The brokenness has had us reeling and when such a message is acknowledged the dizzy whirl finally falls down. Now we can rebalance and aid one another to stand again.
May you be a Malachi of covenant renewal and leave the refining of others to the energy behind such a messenger.
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