Advent Waiting Christmas List

Let’s get in the water with John the Baptist.

Let’s bellow our hope for a new day.

Let’s march to the rhythm of a different drum.

Let’s join in the work of equity and justice.

Let’s demand that our leaders give peace a chance.

Let’s bring our own bank accounts into the conversation of economic justice.

Let’s reach out to repair relationships that we have damaged.

Let’s envision a day of peace, because if peace is possible then war is intolerable.

Let’s examine the prejudices that we have inherited and long harbored.

Let’s sing a joy that is grounded in God’s steadfast love – even as weeping endures for the night.

Let’s examine abundance, because if abundance is possible, nobody should suffer deprivation.

Let’s bring lion and lamb, brambles and thorns, into the story so heaven and nature can sing together.

Let’s be that odd institution that can speak of Christmas joy and Advent pain all around us.

Let’s be that odd institution that we’re called to be.

And let’s do so with hope.