Anticipating

View the present through the promise , Christ will come again.
Trust despite the deepening darkness, Christ will come again.
Lift the World above its grieving through your watching and believing in the hope past hopes conceiving: Christ will come again.
Probe the present with the promise , Christ will come again.
Let your daily actions witness , Christ will come again.
Let your loving and your giving and your justice and forgiving be a sign to all the living : Christ will come again.
Match the present to the promise , Christ will come again.
Make this hope your guiding premise, Christ will come again.
Pattern all your calculating and the world you are creating to the advent you waiting: Christ will come again.

Thomas H Troeger