Christ the King Sunday and the weeks that follow are my favorite time in the Christian calendar. I love the way the lectionary moves progressively from the majesty of the Kingdom realized in its blazing fullness at Christ’s Second Coming to its humble beginning in the soft light of the manger. Each liturgical year, we take the journey from Fulfillment to Expectation and back to Fulfillment again: from light to darkness back to light again. It is a mobius strip of faith, moving us from one plane to another, drawing us deeper and deeper into the mystery and the presence of God-With-Us.
I had considered doing a photo-a-day project for Advent much as I did for Lent (see www.rethinkchurch.org ) but have decided to do something a bit different instead. Over the course of these next six weeks, I will be posting scriptures, thoughts, photos, poems, etc. on the journey from promise realized to the nativity to Epiphany, using the notion of the changing light and these themes:
Week One~ The Kingdom Comes in its Fullness
Week Two ~ The Vision Beckons
Week Three ~ Hope of the Anawim[i]
Week 4 ~ The Promise Remembered
Week 5 (Christmas Week) ~ The Promise Hidden in Plain Sight
Week 6 ~ Epiphanies
I invite each of you to follow along and contribute your own thoughts, photos, poems, etc. by posting them on Cherokee Presbytery’s Facebook page. (If you’ve not “liked” the Cherokee Facebook page, you will need to do so before you can post anything.) I can’t wait to see what we all come up with.
[i] According to The New Jerome Biblical Commentary, anawim is a Hebrew term meaning “overwhelmed by want.”
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I will definitely be following. And for this Advent, I am following my Lenten theme of poetry, along with a photo, of course. Many blessings to you for many needs! Pat