Advent

 

Advent

I have hope for 

a new communion,
not of remembrance,
but anticipation,
given at a table
unladen of history,
to join unburdened
as a hungry child.

To taste on

Earth the peace

that lives within 

the hearts of those,

alone and together,

who share instead 

of covet and hoard.

To celebrate the joy

of bringing to the

table what I can,

and gratefully receiving

what can only

come from above,

the gift of life that

is born again each day

as a child in need

of love and nurture,

but curious as well,

seeking the wonder, 

the illumination,

of eternal truth.

John Northrip