The collect for the second Sunday of Advent reads: Give us grace to heed their (the prophets') warnings and forsake our sins... forsake: to renounce or turn away from entirely, to give up, leave behind, abandon.
Giving up, leaving behind, abandoning... none of these come easy to us. We are constantly reminded not to burn our bridges. Perhaps burning bridges is what the incarnation is all about. God already sacrificed the pleasant unity of the void by speaking those first words: let there be light. One bridge burned already. Incarnation into human form: now that was even riskier. How dreadfully reckless and audacious is the love of God.
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"reckless and audacious." Something tells me I will be thinking about that a lot today. Advent can be a pretty rugged time, with a lot of bridge burning going on. Welcome back.
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