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The Advent Moment

December 4, 2012 by David Anderson 2 Comments

The house lights go off and the footlights come on. Even the chattiest stop chattering as they wait in darkness for the curtain to rise. In the orchestra pit, the violin bows are poised. The conductor has raised his baton. In the silence of a midwinter dusk, there is far off in the deeps of it somewhere a sound so faint that for all you can tell it may be only the sound of the silence itself. You hold your breath to listen. You walk up the steps to the front door. The empty windows at either side of it tell you nothing, or almost nothing. For a second you catch a whiff of some fragrance that reminds you of a place you’ve never been and a time you have no words for. You are aware of the beating of your heart….The extraordinary thing that is about to happen is matched only by the extraordinary moment just before it happens. Advent is the name of that moment.

— Frederick Buechner

Filed Under: Faith/Trust, Now/ the Present, Seeing, Silence, Waiting

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  1. David says

    December 5, 2012 at 7:13 am

    Btw, that image is entitled “Moon Music.” I could sit and look at that for hours . . . .

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  2. Ginny Lovas says

    December 6, 2012 at 11:11 pm

    I need all of that right now in my heart. Ginny

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