Too Full A Poem for Advent

Too Full

(A poem for Advent)

So it begins in some

wilderness absent

of Christmas trees

and carols

Why such a bland start

to a journey that

leads to a

waiting manger

…seems strange

But the God who calls to

us from the desert

of our too full lives

knows us well

We want to unwrap

the waiting present

too soon but

we are not yet ready

There must be some

waiting and weaning

for we are addicted

to our “too much” lives

So a crusty prophet will

again call to us

to prepare a way

for “the Way”

His not so “joy to the world”

cry will challenge

our too full expectations

requiring some emptying

Mary is waiting with her

dream struck Joseph

and Bethlehem’s too full

inn waits too

For now the Advent call

is for us to wait

and watch and wonder

for we are too full

to receive God’s gift

But we can make room

if we listen  to

Advent’s words

in the wilderness

“Prepare the way of the Lord,” but

there must be

a place and

we are too full

So again, yes again

we need Advent

Jody Seymour

Advent 2017