“The Advent narratives are filled with waiting people:
Mary, Zechariah, Elizabeth, Simeon, Anna. They lived in patient expectation and
were receptive to the Good News when it arrived. Their hope did not come as the
result of a battle. It came like a seed planted in the ground. Like the sun
rising in defiance of night. Like a child growing within his mother.”—Syndicated
columnist (and former Presidential speechwriter) Michael Gerson, “Prominent Evangelicals
Are Directing Trump’s Sinking Ship. That Feeds Doubts About Religion,”
The
Washington Post, Dec. 7, 2020The image accompanying this post is Simeon's Song
of Praise (1669), an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch artist Rembrandt
Harmensz van Rijn (1606–1669).
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