by Marcia Mount Shoop
Advent #1
“Clouds are heaven’s tea leaves
All laid out for everyone to see
No squinting into the dark crevices
Of ceramic sorcery
But necks craned looking for God’s
Arrival in the shifting mists of real time.
We’ve been waiting, God, for the
coming of the Lord we’ve cooked up
in our heads, in our hearts, in our dreads,
in our smarts, in our wishful thinking
in our feelings sinking further and further
into a haze of inklings that God must
be planning something big,
an entrance that will grab us
by our attention, in our intentions
in our dissensions and circumventions.
Watch the full GCPC service on 12/1/24 here
(Scripture and sermon begin at 43:37)