Year B - Advent 2 or Needed Change 2
December 7, 2014
December 7 was described by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt as “a date that would live in infamy”. The second Sunday of Advent this year falls on December 7.
Roosevelt’s speech might have begun: “The beginning of bad new of war’s return.” On this day we could take any news medium and see what the proportion of bad news to good news might be found. The odds are overwhelming that the bad continues to be more powerfully portrayed than the good. Fear seems to always have the advantage over hope in the short-term.
Good seems to have to play a long game of moral arcs in the face of so much loss. Even as a background to all else, hope flickers along in the darkness. Hope is kept alive in prophecy. Here it is Isaiah that is remembered.
So what are we waiting for? Another shoe to drop confirming our worst imagining? A real though far off hymn hailing a new creation?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UrzYCG0_-M
May we be ready to now know that we are the one’s we’ve been waiting for.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGeG8sVH0Js
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