A Bridge for Advent

Our society is looking for a bridge---from one health care system to another, from one relationship to Iran to another, from one economy to another--will we be able to get there from here?  Time will tell.  It is not going to be easy.  

Of all the images for Advent, the one least recognized is the bridge...and it is so very fitting for this year.  The bridge takes you literally from one place to another -- and "you could not get there from here" with it.  The way to salvation is for Christians, Jesus the bridge.  No matter what John the Baptist could do, nevertheless...he could not get his people to salvation--only be the forerunner.  His words could never anticipate fully who would come as the Word.  Do we hear the voice in the wilderness of our world still crying out and pointing the way?