Advent Daily Reflection 2020-12-01
Mark 13.33-37
Beware, keep alert; for you do not know when the time will come. It is like a man going on a journey, when he leaves home and puts his slaves in charge, each with his work, and commands the doorkeeper to be on the watch. Therefore, keep awake—for you do not know when the master of the house will come, in the evening, or at midnight, or at cockcrow, or at dawn, or else he may find you asleep when he comes suddenly. And what I say to you I say to all: Keep awake.”
Keep awake. We don't know the precise moment, except it is now. We depart the clearing, likely to journey to the high peaks, above tree line, where the air is thin and alarming and clear, the only foliage is tenaciously fragile, and the deep rooted silence can be felt on your skin and down in your heart. We have not been brought here by accident.
We have pilgrimaged here due to our need to cast off scales like old clothing, to stand unadorned as the blur of stars merges with the dawn sky and listen to the voice in the ceaseless wind. To come away with a new sewn garment of knowledge that we are responsible to and for each other, that at our deepest we are never alone. That we will return to the valley prepared to embrace, to support, to survive transformation, to really, truly risk.