So That We May Awaken
Alfred Delp
There is perhaps nothing we modern people need more than to be genuinely
shaken up.
Where life is firm we need to sense its firmness; and where it is
unstable and uncertain and
has no basis, no foundation, we need to know this too and endure it. We
need to recognize that
we have stood on this earth in false pathos, in false security, in
spiritual insanity.
For this is the message of Advent: faced with him who is the Last, the
world will begin to shake.
Only when we do not cling to false securities will our eyes be able to see
this Last One and get
to the bottom of things. Only then will we be able to guard our life from
the frights and terrors into
which God the Lord has let the world sink to teach us, so that we may
awaken from sleep, as Paul
says, and see that it is time to repent, time to change things.
More...
http://www.bruderhof.com/articles/RealityofAdvent.htm
From "Watch for the Light: Readings for Advent and Christmas"
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