Mark 13: 24-37

Advent, 1971

By Madeleine L'Engle

When will he come and how will he come

and will there be warnings and will there be thunders

and rumbles of armies coming before him

and banners and trumpets

when will he come and how will he come

and will we be ready O woe to you people

you sleep through the thunder

you heed not the warnings the fires and the drownings

the earthquakes and stormings and ignorant armies

and dark closing on you

the song birds are falling the sear birds are dying

no fish now are leaping 

the children are choking in air not for breathing

the aged are gasping with no one to tend them

a bright star has blazed forth

and no one has seen it

and no one has wakened

Come to St. Timothy's on Sunday.  Together let us lift our hearts and voices in praise and thanksgiving, encouraging each other to keep awake for Christ's coming.