Advent: Alpha, Omega and the Eternal Now
In my preparation for the Advent Service of Silence & Beholding last Sunday, I stumbled (and there is no other word for it) across the online blog by Malcolm Guite, poet and author. His words resonate with me at the start of this season, with what has been a year of paradox for us as a family; in his introduction to his book 'Waiting on the Word' (Canterbury Press 2015), Guite both honours the tradition of looking back to the birth of Christ and looking forward to the promises of fulfilment in the new heaven and new earth. At the same time, he invites us to find a third focus, one of awakening to the possibility that "the God in whom we live and move and have our being may come and meet us when and where he pleases, and any door we open, may be the door to the 'chapel perilous'" (Guite: 2015). For me, this speaks of the 'Eternal Now' of Christ.
Throughout Advent, Malcolm Guite is publishing his poetry to the Advent Antiphons with accompanying art-works on his blog, with the option of signing up for a daily email. The link is: https://malcolmguite.wordpress.com/tag/advent-antiphons/
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