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Subject: Sunday Musings: Advent 1
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TODAY IS THE FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT

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The wheel has turned, the cycle starts again. For the next year, we’ll
mostly be focused on the Gospel of Matthew. The story it tells of Jesus is
a very Jewish story — of family and tribe, of the Law, and of liberation.

And the season of Advent opens us up to the mystery of time — to understand
ourselves in the stories of the past, future, and present.
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It was originally written as a Sunday musing in December 2022 and is based
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All three of today’s scripture selections are included today.
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Isaiah 2:2, 4-5

*In days to comethe mountain of the Lord’s house*

*shall be established as the highest of the mountains,and shall be raised
above the hills;*

*all the nations shall stream to it….*

*He shall judge between the nations,and shall arbitrate for many peoples;*

*they shall beat their swords into ploughshares,and their spears into
pruning-hooks;*

*nation shall not lift up sword against nation,neither shall they learn war
any more.*

Romans 13:11-14

*You know what time it is, how it is now the moment for you to wake from
sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we became believers; the
night is far gone, the day is near. Let us then lay aside the works of
darkness and put on the armor of light; let us live honorably as in the
day, not in reveling and drunkenness, not in debauchery and licentiousness,
not in quarreling and jealousy. Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and
make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.*

Matthew 24:36-44

*Jesus said to the disciples, “But about that day and hour no one knows,
neither the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. For as the
days of Noah were, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. For as in those
days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in
marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark, and they knew nothing until
the flood came and swept them all away, so too will be the coming of the
Son of Man. Then two will be in the field; one will be taken and one will
be left. Two women will be grinding meal together; one will be taken and
one will be left. Keep awake therefore, for you do not know on what day
your Lord is coming. But understand this: if the owner of the house had
known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed
awake and would not have let his house be broken into. Therefore you also
must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an unexpected hour.”*
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“Wrinkly Time,” from
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*There are few books I’ve loved as much as I love Madeleine L’Engle’s **A
Wrinkle in Time**. *I first read it when I was about ten, just shy of the
age of the protagonist, Meg Murry. And the story follows her, her brother,
Charles Wallace, and her friend Calvin on a journey through time and space
to find the Murry children’s missing father, aided by three mysterious
strangers: Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. Which.

Mr. Murry is “behind the darkness” on a frightening, distant world called
Camazotz. The children can only reach it through the means of the tesseract
by “wrinkling” in time. But Meg struggles to understand. Mrs. Which
explains to her:

*“Wwee musste ggo bbehindd thee sshaddow.”*

“But we will not do it all at once,” Mrs. Whatsit comforted them.

“We will do it in short stages.” She looked at Meg. “Now we will tesser, we
will wrinkle again. Do you understand?”

“No,” Meg said flatly.

Mrs. Whatsit signed. “Explanations are not easy when they are about things
for which your civilization still has no words. Calvin talked about
traveling at the speed of light. You understand that, little Meg?”

“Yes,” Meg nodded.

“That, of course, is the impractical, long way around. We have learned to
take short cuts wherever possible . . .” Mrs. Whatsit looked over at Mrs.
Who. “Take your skirt and show them.”

Mrs. Who took a portion of her white robe in her hands and held it tight.

“You see,” Mrs. Whatsit said, “if a very small insect were to move from the
section of skirt in Mrs. Who’s right hand to her left, it would be quite a
long walk for him if he had to walk straight across.”

Swiftly, Mrs. Who brought her hands, still holding the skirt, together.

“Now, you see,” Mrs. Whatsit said, “ he would be there without that long
trip. That is how we travel.”

The three Misses and Meg’s prodigy younger brother, Charles Wallace,
continue to explain to Meg how time is the fourth dimension and the
tesseract is the fifth. “In other words,” Charles Wallace said, “a straight
line is not the shortest distance between two points.”

* * *

*The readings for the first Sunday of Advent locate us in time: “In days to
come,” “You know what time it is,” and “That day and hour no one knows.”*

On the face of it, that sounds simple. But it isn’t. What time is it? And
what is time? Are we close or far, near or distant? Is time a line, a
circle, a spiral, or a cylinder? Is it easily ordered by clocks and
calendars, or does it flow like a river or blow like a breeze? Is it
divided into past, present, and future? Does it mark our lives? Or is time
primarily our experiences of dislocations, disruptions, and disjunctures?

Advent is particularly confusing when it comes to time. When I was little,
I remember asking my mother about Advent as we lit the first candle of the
wreath: “What are we waiting for?”

She said, without hesitation, “We’re waiting for Jesus to be born.”

“But wasn’t he already born, Mommy? A long time ago?” I couldn’t figure
this out. “Why are we waiting for something that already happened?”

Advent reenacts a past event as if it is new each year. And every week, in
liturgical churches, we are reminded that “Christ will come again.” That’s
the other Advent— the future one that hasn’t happened yet. Advent is about
both of those times: the first coming of Jesus’s birth and the second
coming of Jesus’s return. It is also true that Jesus comes to our hearts, a
kind of personal Advent for every Christian. We’re waiting for Jesus— a
memory, an experience, and a hope.

Christians have struggled to understand this. Entire New Testament books
try to make sense of God and human time, of the various comings of Jesus,
and of the tension between This Age and the expectation of the Age to Come.
Christian theology speaks of already and not yet, of creation and
recreation, of memory and anticipation. In a warring world, we await swords
to be turned into plowshares. While governments ignore injustice, we long
for liberation. As we toil in ordinary work, we are aware of God’s
impending miraculous approach.

“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” sounds the Voice in John’s mystical
revelation, “the first and the last, the beginning and the end.”

Perhaps we aren’t supposed to make sense of sacred time, of Advent and the
multiple advents. The season of Advent invites us to see beyond the shadow,
to be able to go behind the darkness and discover the pure love hidden on
the other side.

It isn’t a straight line from Alpha to Omega— it is a wrinkle in time —
like the hem of Mrs. Who’s robe. Moving through time is where unexpected
edges touch, mystery overlaps mystery, the journey of ages and eons and
epochs dancing together like stars and planets. Maybe that’s the only way
we glimpse the Bright Star, the rising dawn of the dream Isaiah saw.

Advent is much more than an arrival. It is more of a tesseract— a journey
through time, flowing with wonder, a mysterious winding way to the place
behind the darkness.

Let’s join hands and go there together.
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*The accumulated memories of annual emotionMay be concentrated into a great
joyWhich shall be also a great fear, as on the occasionWhen fear came upon
every soul:Because the beginning shall remind us of the endAnd the first
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*He will come, will come,will come like crying in the night,like blood,
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*Mrs. Whatsit was not speaking aloud, and yet through the wings Meg
understood words. “My child, do not despair. Do you think we would have
brought you here if there were no hope? We are asking you to do a difficult
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