Poem for 3rd, Sunday in Advent Luke 3:1-6

John came with the message

Prepare

Prepare your hearts

-----minds

----------lives

for the one who is to come

and is here

fill the world with the love

that we

----on this side of the cross

know came into the world

on that lonely night

when all the world broke for the light

and song

and the angels sang with the shepherds

Joy

Joy be to this world

Joy be in your hearts

----Emmanuel has come

Prepare ye the way

In a world filled with hatred

And walls

And change

Prepare in your heart

Prepare in your world

For the One of whom John spoke

Emmanuel

God with us.