“O that you would tear open the heavens and come down…”, so says the Isaiah reading from the Lectionary for next Sunday (Advent). It’s a violent image, but it represent the passion of someone who sees the urgent need for God to do something in a troubled world.
And yet … sitting in an armchair is a hypocritical position from which to be praying. It’s all too easy to be passionate about God doing something, and being less passionate about doing it ourselves. There are times, though, when it feels as if we don’t have any kind of handle by which to influence what happens in the world.
The bracken’s dying back now and it was easier to see this milestone yesterday.
