Yesterday in our Advent Daily Office we left behind the first set of readings and stepped into the second set. Of the accompanying Old Testament passages in the first set, I actually had one person comment with recognition that I had used Everett Fox’s translation — it’s a little obscure, but I quite like it, and the recognition was a good thing. So with our mind filled with the thoughts of the eternal Word (Logos) one with the Father from before the beginning and the background of eternal Wisdom personified and the revelation of God’s name, we step into the next pair of texts from John’s prologue: verses 3 and 17. Together with the Old Testament texts, we find a description of the things established by the Word and a message for those who wait. The readings for the second half of this week are these:

I’ve been working up to this all week, and I doubt I can cover it off in a single entry, but let’s see what we come up with, shall we? Just piecing together some themes following the Seabeck Gathering sponsored by Allelon, I have begun to consider The Role of The Rule (and other disciplines) as part of The Subversive Nature of the Ordinary in helping to keep us on the path during a mapless quest or an aimful wandering — a Peregrinatio. Len picked up a theme from me of covenant renewal, which I commented further upon, saying I didn’t plan to hit the theme until today, that I was just foreshadowing. Well, the pressure’s on.