Here’s an Advent reflection inspired by Isaiah
40: 3-5 (and, by extension, Mark 1: 2-3 and Luke 3: 4-6). It was written by Bruce Prewer.
Brave
Wilderness Voice
(inspired by Isaiah
40:3-5, Mark 1:2-3, Luke 3:4-6)
O brave wilderness voice,
prophet of the Highest,
come among our markets
and consuming passions
and rebuke with your cry
our modern addictions
and frantic fashions.
O lonely, rough-hewn soul,
speaker of hard truths,
axe our mad, fruitless boasts
and viperous displays;
call us to that repentance
which we have deftly dodged
under pious cliches.
O smoother of crude ways,
mover of black mountains,
tread down our pampered pride
and cultured discontent;
straighten our twisted days
until each childlike hope
skips to meet the Advent.
~
from Beyond Words, copyright © B
Prewer & JBCE 1995. Posted on Bruce Prewer’s Home Page. http://www.bruceprewer.com/
