Promises made and kept, but not the way we thought.
Prophets foretelling and forth-telling the truth as they saw it.
Empires on the make and populations on the move.
Mary and Joseph, angels and shepherds performing the first scratch nativity.
A baby born in underprivileged circumstances.
A refugee family fleeing the slaughter of the innocents looking for a safe home.
All told, not the greatest story ever told.
Every day the story is retold in Syria, Myanmar, on the Mediterranean.
Advent is when Eternal love intersects with human history,
when reconciliation, peace, justice and hope
came gift-wrapped in swaddling cloths.
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