‽istis
reclaims Advent (weekending 21st December 2019)
‽istis, peered through today’s door of the Advent calendar and sighed a deep sigh of gathering gloom and wondered what we were waiting for; wondered to be honest whether, a supposed two thousand and nineteen years’ ago when BC had become AD, it had made a scrap of difference?
‽ just how bad might
the past two thousand years perhaps have been? Could it be worse than the
Holocaust, the deaths from Spanish flu following the First World War, the war itself
and all the others, the preventable deaths, the murders and suicides and lives
lived through abuse and illness of body and mind, lived through a glass darkly?
‽ would the loss of a
bit of supposed ‘free will’ have been quite so bad? better to have got it right
from the start, possibly – if one believed in a Creator? even turning it off
and turning it on again with Noah and ‘humanity 2.0’ might surely have worked?
‽ and maybe, just for
one day – say Christmas Day – wouldn’t it be possible to make a new gesture: the barrels of the Kalashnikovs and the assault weapons turning to liquorice? the blades
flashing in anger on the streets turning to rubber? the landmines party-popping with glitter?
And perhaps, possibly, maybe those who profess and carol and rejoice could just live to prove Emanuel; the spirit of Christmas become real - and not just for Christmas. Yet we wait, trying to imagine desperately how different the world might be…
© Pistis
