Second Thursday of Advent

Please read Genesis 1:1; Revelation 22:13

come:

for

we have scrabbled

all those imaginative words

you spoke at creation -

light, beauty, sky,

grace, water, joy, hope -

jumbling them into a

toxic mess which daily

threatens your dreams;

come:

for

no matter how we try

to juggle the books,

punching in this number

and the next on our high tech

calculators,

trying + and then -

even x a few times,

our lives never seem

to balance out;

from the beginning

to your ending

and beyond,

from a to z

with all the words

in between,

from our first breath

to our last hope,

come,

Alpha and Omega,

come.

(c) 2009 Thom M. Shuman