In the Beginning…Silence

In the beginning was the Silence,

Brooding over tumult,

Hovering amidst insanity,

Waiting, waiting, waiting.       

The Silence was with God and the Silence was God,

Millennia of cacophonous drumbeat,

Steady march of polarization,

Waiting, waiting, waiting.

In Silence is life, and that life is the light of all,

Mystery of angel visitations,

Shepherd surprise, celestial chorus, darkness of night,

Waiting, waiting, waiting.

The Silence speaks into the Noise and the Noise cannot overcome,

Be-attitudes on a mountain,

The sacred in common story,

Waiting and listening, listening and waiting.

The Silence becomes Word and dwells among us,

Accepting leper touch,

Receiving Syro-Phoenician rebuke,

Incarnating Word that silences all other speech but praise.

Advent hoping for all y’all,

Brad Munroe