“Blessed are all who wait for the Lord.”

Advent is about waiting. It is about waiting for the promises of Isaiah and the prophets to be fulfilled. It is also about trusting in God, trusting that, as Isaiah says, God will give us the bread we need and the water for which we thirst. We wait for completion, fulfillment. The Risen Christ will bind up our wounds, heal us and make all things new now and in the fullness of time.

I just read with interest and I must admit with a cynical smile a report on Rachel Held Evans who tried to live biblical mandates and injunctions for a year. I was amused when she interpreted Paul’s admonition to submit to her husband—she let him pick the movie they were going to watch even though she wanted to watch something else. (http://ncronline.org/news/women/author-finds-out-just-how-much-expected-biblical-women) She chose to live a very literal fundamentalist version of the Bible. Continue reading →