Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Advent Longing

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As we enter Advent - the season of Expectation and Hope,
I invite you let surface your Holy Longing for God.
Try to find some quiet time every day to sense your deepest need.


You, God, who live next door -

If at times, through the long night, I trouble you
with my urgent knocking -
this is why: I hear you breathe so seldom.
I know you’re all alone in that room.

If you should be thirsty, there’s no one
to get you a glass of water.
I wait listening, always. Just give me a sign!

I’m right here.
As it happens, the wall between us
is very thin. Why couldn’t a cry
from one of us
break it down? It would crumble

easily,


it would barely make a sound. 


Rainer Maria Rilke


Please check out an Advent Contemplative Fire resource here.

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