Second Thursday

a devotional for Advent

A Blessed Advent to all!

For the entire season of Advent, I’ll be posting entries from my original Advent devotional ebook, Pilgrim God, every week.

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some things are hidden
and some are revealed

very
slowly;

mystery and vision
are holy sisters;
fogbound seas,
mist-crowned treetops,
God’s footsteps
in the hallowed paths
of the once
and future
Eden.

Back at the start, when the Story was only a Word, Creator-God walked in the garden among the creatures He had made with His own hands and His wild imagination. 

Later, when He was born as a pilgrim into the darkness of the fallen world, He walked again on little child-feet among the people He had made, the ones He had shaped with His craft and each soul He had filled with His breath. 

If we listen, braced against the winter wind, curtains open to allow the season’s chill, we can still hear His footsteps, echoes from the past--or perhaps the future? In the Story, time is unclear. Time is immaterial. We can hear His footsteps still, and follow. 

In Advent, we must allow for mystery. And mystery is uncomfortable. In a true mystery, no answers are expected, no clarity is required. We need only to stand still in the mist and listen for the footfalls of God, to know which way to go.

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