Monday, December 15
Nm 24:2-7, 15-17a/Mt 21:23-27
Who can be saved? Not the one with riches, but maybe the one who is paying attention.
Dark Mornings, Advent Time
These dark mornings, Advent time,
you sit by your window and wait for the light.
At first you see only your lamp, some books,
yourself reflected in the window as in a mirror,
a mirror against the dense black outside.
December mornings the light grows slowly.
You must pay attention if you are to notice
the gradual change from gray to dull olive,
and that brief moment when each leaf is lit by gold,
on fire with gold, then green.
Right now, you may be waiting to see if the sky
will turn from dark to gray to peach and finally blue,
or if it will give way to gray rain-filled clouds.
Dawn reveals each day and its own possibilities
for peace, for beauty and for love.
“Pay attention! Pay attention!” Someone whispers
in the morning’s sleepy silence. “Pay attention!
Don’t miss this dawn! Don’t miss this day!
Pay attention and see what Child of peace,
of beauty and of love is waiting to be born.”
Mantra: Paying attention, waiting to be born.
Kay McMullen, SNDdeN
