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Would the World, Heaven’s Message Understand? (Reflective Verse 5 of 9 for Advent Watch )

Does Gabriel in God’s presence speak?
An angel, whose message is the Lord’s.
What are humans that heaven should mind?
What are mortal children in God’s sight?

These lot even angels envy much,
Born is God’s own, a child in their kind!
Gabriel wonders, telling Christ’s birth;
Would the world, his message understand?

Kings carry greed for riches and pow’r,
Shepherds tend to sheep in fields at dark,
Bethlehem sleeps, careless about Christ,
A keeper grants a shed, no place else.

Zechariah, Mary, and Joseph…
A remnant watches for God’s promise.
Elizabeth, Ana, and Simeon…
And John in the womb will know comes Christ.

Sent to speak to the least of people,
The angels proclaim heaven’s message.
Would the world, their message understand?
Of God’s love for the least now send.

~ S. J. Earl P. Canlas

(We are seeing the last few weeks of 2013 as we move to celebrate the Christmas spirit. We should tremble at the thought of the Christmas story for we protect the powerful among us, even today. We glorify their exploits more than justice that God seeks from them. Shake in the mystery of God’s light breaking through the darkness.)

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A Story to Shake Us (Reflective Verse 1 of 9 for Advent Watch )

One has walked the path before,
The steps I track are not my own.
I heard it then but plead more!
Tell it or sing it, come on.

The wind whispers, go and tell.
One whose birth tells us a lot,
of promise and hope, compelling;
A child is born, to us giv’n!

And tyranny would flee then?
Or greed, or power, defect?
For a child of promise beats,
of time anew, us to keep.

Mary, sing your song to heav’n,
Prophesy, Zechariah!
Your story, God, though, we tell,
We bleed those who are poor still.

Mary, sing your song to heav’n,
Prophesy, Zechariah!
We need to find the story,
Not to hear it but live it.

Mary, sing your song to heav’n,
Prophesy, Zechariah!
The earth will shake us to change,
And leave the unshakable.

~ S. J. Earl P. Canlas

(We are seeing the last few weeks of 2013 as we move to celebrate the Advent and Christmas spirit. Shake in the mystery of God’s light breaking through the darkness.)

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