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From Richard's sermon last week:
We are not just talking about the kingdom coming at the end of time- we are talking about the kingdom coming close every day, in small ways, in moments of grace and kindness, in moments which happen and are gone and are too rarely spotted. Jesus and Isaiah are calling us, urging us, to see the world through their eyes, to be so utterly besotted with God at work in the world that we want to capture every passing moment, and study it, and relish it, and glory in it, and then learn from that moment how to see the next one. And the next one. And the one after that.
And then, perhaps, wonderfully, to start to bring those moments to birth by being in the world with God on our heart and by being with God with the world on our heart.
Advent waiting is not something we can wait for. We can’t just hope it will fall into place, that somehow our diaries will open themselves up or strangely make space for us to think and listen. We have to commit here and now to keep Advent well, because we are as in love with the kingdom as Isaiah and because Jesus calls us, tells us, to be ready now so that we can glimpse and attend to every momentary sign of God’s grace at work in the world. |
