Advent Sunday 2nd December.

" In Him was life and that life was the light of all mankind. 

The Light Shines in the darkness,

And the darkness has not overcome it"

John Chapter 1 verses 4 and 5. 

The Bible. NIV.  

Advent 1955 byJohn Betjeman

 

The Advent wind begins to stir With sea-like sounds in our Scotch fir, It's dark at breakfast, dark at tea, And in between we only see Clouds hurrying across the sky And rain-wet roads the wind blows dry And branches bending to the gale Against great skies all silver pale The world seems travelling into space, And travelling at a faster pace Than in the leisured summer weather When we and it sit out together, For now we feel the world spin round On some momentous journey bound - Journey to what? to whom? to where? The Advent bells call out 'Prepare, Your world is journeying to the birth Of God made Man for us on earth.'      Part of a poem by John Betjeman.