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Advent 4 A

Matthew 1:18–25

Now the birth of Jesus the Messiah took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been engaged to Joseph, but before they lived together, she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. Her husband Joseph, being a righteous man and unwilling to expose her to public disgrace, planned to dismiss her quietly. (Matt 1:18–19)

Quiet dismissal is what we do to you

when you are close,

because you flush our faces red

with your pregnant unexpectedness,

invading our strategies and medicaments,

ruining our safe careers and nest-egg certainties.

We would have you sent off Joseph-like

to a small town halfway house clapboard grey

where you can birth your ways behind windows

inaudible, isolated, and irrelevant,

and we can move on to another love and another.

So what singing angel will come to us in reverie

to save us from ourselves and our best intentions,

head off our ego-preserving diplomacies,

and gospel us with the message we dread

and always in need of in our sterile barrenness?