I am loving this today from Cheryl … and for the first time ever I am happy to start thinking about Advent/Christmas early.
Perhaps our mistake is thinking
that love will always come
in the shape we have known it:
a happy ending
a new beginning
a christ-child.
In this pregnant pause
while the earth holds its breath
waiting for what
it does not know,
let us have the faith
that even we,
with all our wise
and cynical
knowing,
would not imagine
the shape that love
will take
and instead just
have the faith
that it will come.
Amazingly beautiful. We simply cannot imagine the shape of love …. so I believe I need to stay alert ad look for clues … in case in my brazen dismissal I dismiss the unexpected love of God.