Remains of the Day
(c) Brian David Kelley 2024-01-7 Crischona Bettingen SCHWEIZ
Eclectic info from the mind of Brian Kelley
(c) Brian David Kelley 2024-01-7 Crischona Bettingen SCHWEIZ
A look from heaven
reaches down, lights the eyes
shines into the soul
transformational quanta
a word never voided
message received
sky to earth
eternal to temporal
dynamic thethering
a knot to the spirit
(c) 2023 Brian David Kelley
When life makes you numb, when life keeps you low
The burden you bear is not just for you
There's someone who cares, when you have no clue
Inescapable grace
Irreplaceble mercy
and a passion that longs for your best
a repeating forgiveness
and a stubborn renewal
even when life's a mess
We just finished the Christmas season, and I am thinking anew about the Advent season.
When God invaded a world of His own making - in the form of a helpless baby.
The world had rebelled more than once - continually actually. Many had tried to supplant God with anything else, even ultimately with themselves.
And yet Advent is a coming by God. Incarnation in the least imposing way imaginable - as a baby born to poor parents under a repressive Roman empire. Refugees chased out of their own land by a deranged local leader seeking to secure his power base.