Advent. Rambling Post… Tired. Worn out. Waiting. Excited. Resting. Waiting. Tired of waiting? Excited because waiting? I need something new. Something that breaks in. Dissipates the norm. Transforms. I read this recently: It’s the poem that takes our breath away. The film that leaves us with a sense of “I didn’t know you could do it like that.” Songs that make us feel something momentous and deep in our bones. This is the kind of art that is made of the things that tear up the soil so that the new things can grow. It’s a death and a birth. It’s a clearing out and a making way. It’s generative, even if it’s a bit messy. I’ve been struck this advent a lot by the characters - the characters in the well-known story, obviously, and the characters who foretold of the events to come. As this reading says, the prophets who ‘caught lightning in a bottle to show it to us,’ and to show it to people in the middle of their messes, who needed something new to break in, to dissipate the norm, and transform everything.
Look at them this advent. Let their stories, their poems, their truth dissipate the norm around you, and transform everything. [1] Geoff Gentry, Art is the Symbol that Moves us Towards Restoration, from Alabaster Co., https://www.alabasterco.com/blogs/articles/art-is-the-symbol-that-move-us
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AuthorI'm a recent Cambridge Theology graduate now studying for a Masters in Biblical Studies and blogging about all sorts of things! I'm interested in faith, Church, theology, social action, the great outdoors and being creative, and all of those things - along with many more - come through in my posts!
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