Christmas, day 10. The Holy Tension
Luke 1:17 And he will go on before the Lord in the Spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous—to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.
Again a ragged desert sentry
appears on the horizon
after the last word in the last book:
curse
“or else I will come and strike the land
with a curse”
thank you, Malachi,
for that benediction.
a curse or what?
another Elijah
who lives in holy tension
between silence and the Word
between rock and crumbling sand
between drought and pastures green
between brook and desert strand
we, too, live in the tension
unaware
far as the curse is found
and the promised voice
in the desert
in the wild places
calls: prepare
shouts: get ready
urges: He’s on the Move!
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