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Pastor's Column December 2005
For the last week or so, I've awakened at 4 am.sitting bolt upright. Did I hear something? Or have some weird dream? Am I just excited? Worried? Troubled? Sometimes I go back to bed. Sometimes I stay up, smug in the feeling that whenever anyone else wakes up, I've been awake first. When I look around at the political and religious landscape these days, it feels like people are finally waking up. Waking up to the absurdity of the war. Waking up to the shame of cutting programs for the poor to keep in place tax cuts for the wealthy. Waking up to the ridiculous claims made against gays and lesbians in the name of the faith. I keep wondering, is there some new information, some piece of news that has finally surfaced, sending peoples. thoughts in a different direction? Or was I just so very clever to be awake before these other folks? But I think the truth is this: At any time there are new things we can see, if we are willing to look. And things we can.t see because its easier to shut our eyes and roll over. So my question to myself this Advent is this: what things do I continue not to see clearly? What would God show to me now, if I only manage to stay awake? ADVENT 2005
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