2 Peter 3:14 Therefore, beloved, while you are waiting for these things, strive to be found by him at peace, without spot or blemish,.

The Wait

Humming that tune we hold to the phone.

Fingers a-drumming we wait the green light.

Sighing then frowning we fidget and shift.

- The wait and the waiting are endless.

But what of The Wait

For the Promise of Life?

For the Peace of all things?

and the Land always green?

Not humming nor drumming nor fidgets will do it!

But knowing the worth

in all of God's kin -

The grand and the low, equal gifts held within-

In striving for wholeness we make the new earth.

Prayer: Advent God, every moment you arrive anew. Use my hands, my thoughts, my actions - my offering to effect the coming new earth. Amen.

-Cynthia McCarthy