advent journal: anthem

Milton Brasher-Cunningham

07 Dec 2008

It’s late and I’ve been staring at the page for a long time.

Nothing has appeared. My mind has wandered from John the Baptist to the Magi (they wander in and out of my thoughts all through Advent) to conversations over cooking at work tonight to who knows what, but none of those thoughts has taken the shape of a story and my mind is as tired from wandering as my body is from working. Yet, it did end up somewhere, recalling the chorus to Leonard Cohen’s song, “Anthem”:

From there I went in search of the lyric and the song, both of which follow. Tonight, this is my lullaby.

Amen.

Peace,
Milton

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