<One of the essential paradoxes of Advent: that while we wait for God, we are with God all along, that while we need to be reassured of God’s arrival, or the arrival of our homecoming, we are already at home. While we wait, we have to trust, to have faith, but it is God’s grace that gives us that faith. As with all spiritual knowledge, two things are true, and equally true, at once. The mind can’t grasp paradox; it is the secret knowledge of the soul. - Michelle Blake, The Tentmaker>
<The season of Advent means there is something on the horizon the likes of which we have never seen before… .What is possible is to walk past it, to miss it, to turn just as it brushes past you. And you begin to grasp what it was you missed, like Moses in the cleft of the rock, watching God’s back fade in the distance. So sit. Breathe. Linger. Tarry. Ponder. Behold. Ruminate. Meditate. Wonder. There will be time enough for running. For rushing. For worrying. For pushing. So for now, stay. Wait. Something is on the horizon, the likes of which we have never seen before. - Jan L. Richardson, Night Visions: Searching the Shadows of Advent and Christmas, sort of>
