First Thursday of Advent

For God alone my soul waits
         in silence,
   for my hope is from him.  Psalm 62:5

when the emptiness
      of my soul
      echoes with the
   footsteps of my
         fears,
you reach into
your illimitable
   trove of
            hope,
to replenish my
      grace.

(c) 2017 Thom M. Shuman