Advent: Now and Then

Now:

By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, when we remembered you, O Zion.

As for our harps, we hung them up on the trees in the midst of that land.

For those who led us away captive asked us for a song,and our oppressors called for mirth:

"Sing us one of the songs of Zion."

How shall we sing the LORD'S song upon an alien soil?

Psalm 137:1-4

Then:

O what their joy and their glory must be,

those endless Sabbaths the blessèd ones see;

crown for the valiant, to weary ones rest:

God shall be All, and in all ever blest.

Peter Abelard

Hang in there, friends.