Fourth Tuesday of Advent

Please read John 1:1-14

one

word

to gather up

all our silence,

weaving our hopes, our fears,

our longings, our ponderings

into a carol of wonder;

one

light

to pierce the shadowed

corners

of our lives, revealing

the One who sits quietly

in the rocker,

eager to gather us up

and tell us the end

of the story;

one

grace

to turn us away

from the steamy

ugliness

we glimpse in the

mirror each morning,

so we can see

face-to-face

our twin;

come,

One and Only,

come for us all.

(c) 2009 Thom M. Shuman