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The answer to this question
is that perhaps we were living on earth
in an utterly false and counterfeit security.
And now God strikes the earth till it resounds,
now he shakes and shatters; not to pound
us with fear, but to teach us one thing -
the spirit's innermost moving
and being moved.
Here is the message of Advent:
faced with him who is the Last,
the world will begin to shake.
Only when we do not cling to false
securities will our eyes be able to see
this Last One and get to the bottom of things.
Only then will we be able to guard our life
from the frights and terrors into which
God the Lord has let the world sink
to teach us, so that we may awaken from sleep,
as Paul says, and see that it is time to repent,
time to change things.
It is time to say, "All right, it was night;
but let that be over now and let us
be ready for the day."
We must do this with a decision
that comes out of these very horrors
we have experienced and all that is
connected with them; and because of this
our decision will be unshakable
even in uncertainty.
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