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We Live in the Fluidity of Time - Meditation for Thursday of Advent III

Advent wreath with three candles lit.

Yesterday today was tomorrow.

By tomorrow today will be yesterday.

In not so long, today will be a distant memory

And yet the day on which it becomes a distant memory still now has yet to come. 

We live in the fluidity of time

And yet always and forever

In the present moment,

the now. 

Now we live within the

Stream of time

But soon enough

Only in the

Now of

Eternity. 

We look forward to the past and back to the future.

We look forward to

His Coming that

Has already come

And we look back to see

His coming that

Has not yet come.  And yet, in all of this He is and He Is come here and now. 

We look to His Comings

That

In fact

Are One Coming?

It makes “No sense”,

So I will take

Time day by day

I will sit quietly within time and yet within Eternity

In the stillness and silence

I will await His

Coming,

His coming that has already come,

His coming that has yet to come,

His coming that is Come

Here and now

I will allow the Mystery that Is

Himself to

Come

Be present to me and within me in the gift of the Present

Moment and I too will be present.

Rejoicing in His Coming.

Amen!

The readings for Thursday of Advent III are Psalm  50, Isa. 9:18––10:4, 2 Pet. 2:10b-16, and Matt. 3:1-12.

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