Advent Song

Waiting, not knowing 
(Lyrics of Advent song)
Waiting, not knowing: Lord, here we are again!
Waiting, not knowing, can send this world insane.
Give me the wisdom to trust and not complain.
Some say that waiting on you is greatest gain.

Open that space of emptiness
in which I wait on you.
Freed of anxiety and stress,
I let my thoughts be few.
There I find calm and spaciousness:
I’m neither big nor small.
There I can sense your graciousness:
I let defences fall.

Waiting, not knowing: why do I need to know?
Waiting, not knowing, the spirit wind might blow.
Give me awareness to pause my to and fro,
sensing the moment as deep and broad and slow.

Here I find room to be myself,
try other ways to know:
blessed now by being on the shelf,
where I have time to grow.
Here I receive the spirit spark:
words glowing on the page.
Though I am groping in the dark,
I find the gift of age.

Waiting, not knowing, makes peace with destiny;
waiting, not knowing, I hear both you and me.
Give me the courage to wait to know and see,
let go control now and practise to be free.
      Barbara Messner 3 December 2020


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