Advent: Wait Training, Blog, Week 2: Mark
I’ve been thinking about this blog all week–when I’ve been getting ready to go out in the morning or to bed at night, in the car, during my lunch hours. I’ve been bringing it up in conversation. I’ve been reading and re-reading Mark...
Advent: Wait Training, Blog, Week 2: Mark
The readings for this second week of Advent alert us of something new about to happen. But in both the prophet Isaiah and the Gospel of Mark we go to the wilderness as part of the experience of the new thing. In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord says...
Advent: Wait Training, Blog, Week 2: Mark
I like John the Baptist a lot. I would hang with JtB. Love the hair. I’d want to talk to him about this whole baptism thing. I do appreciate the show biz factor and the dunking. Even so, I’m guessing the Spirit is even more cagey than we might...
Advent: Wait Training, Blog, Week 2: Mark
We have become conditioned to expect instant gratification. All the TV commercials and newspaper ads tell us that we can have anything we want. We deserve it. Just go out and buy it. Huh? Whatever happened to saving for something? We no longer wait for anything. We...
Advent: Wait Training, Blog, Week 2: Mark
“A voice coxing, ‘Y’all get things ready! Y’all make it a straight street!'” (Mark 1:3) The “beginning of the good news” takes us from praying to working while we wait. We move from the silence of longing to shouts of...
