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“ Getting ready time is mainly abrasive…asking, thinking, pondering, and redeciding.”

Walter Brueggemann, speaking of Advent, in Celebrating Abundance, 2017

In last week’s sunless days, it was easier to work at my desk. I found myself reflecting back on the year, a good Advent practice as we prepare to accept the dawning of hope, the true message of Christmas, that things could be different, better…

… preparing to hear Mary’s Song after the angel brings her the difficult good news she’ll be pregnant out of wedlock with a son who will change the world and pay the price…

… hearing Mary’s Song through John Pitney’s verse in “Song for the Wise Ones,” that because of this child there will be newness.

“ She pondered a free world, the poor all redeemed,

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