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By Joel Melton

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… and we wait.

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we know the end,

how the promise was kept,

and is being kept.

He has and is

and will come.

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the advented Light

still breaks —

is adventing —

in our night-like days.

we wait like winter.

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the curse is being reversed.

redemption’s cycle

spins in the song

He began.

so sing along.

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heaven’s threshold glows

in pulsing joy.

He too waits, eagerly

in patient love.

so we wait.

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so come and become.

advent in our weary hope.

fulfill the days

we wait…

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You can find more of Joel’s poetry at The Reaching Root.