Sunday, 25 December 2005

pronto viene, Jesus Cristo.

He who testifies to these things says, "Yes, I am coming soon."
Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.
Revelation 22:20


Lord Jesus Christ, Help us not to fall in love with the night that covers us but through the darkness to watch for you as well as to work for you; to dream and hunger in the dark for the light of you. Help us to know that the madness of God is saner than men and that nothing that God has wrought in this world was ever possible.
Give us back the great hope again that the future is yours, that not even the world can hide you from us forever, that at the end the One who came will come back in power to work joy in us stronger even than death. Amen.(the hungering dark, frederick buechner)

oh! the suffering in my heart. would you, god, if you are there and if you are god, would you come. come now and bring the hope you promised. oh, that the darkness would open itself like a curtain, and that the glorious light of our hope would shine through.
how long will we wait for you, oh god? how long will anger and hurt and self-loathing and failure and defeat and hopelessness and despair and loss be the fodder upon which we tired and hungry beasts must feed? how long till our eyes do not behold the suffering near and far, our ears do not retain the painful gasps of a world writhing and cowering under the blows of our enemy's club?
silence will surely befall us, and quiet will surround us, and our heads will tilt backwards and our eyes will look into the sky and find you. find you coming in all your glory. the curtain will surely be drawn back and your truth will be revealed. upon this we surrender our ways, within this we invest our talents, from this we draw our hope, because of this we give our lives.
come, lord jesus.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

'The light shines in the darkness and the darkness shall not overcome it.'

Behold the light of the world!

Richard D. Jenkins said...

Buechner...my favorite!!

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