First Saturday of Advent

“For the Lord himself, with a cry of command, with the archangel’s call and with the sound of God’s trumpet, will descend from heaven . . .”1^st Thessalonians 4:16

in the baby’s tiny

fist grasping its mom’s finger;

in the purring of a kitten

that lulls us to sleep;

in the tiptoes of

a teenager creeping off early

to school each morning;

in every breath

   of peace,

every whisper

   of hope,

every sigh

   of grace,

you come . . .

© 2018 Thom M. Shuman