Today’s post comes via Rob, my partner in Proostyness. This is what he has to say;

This reading from Ian Adams’ ‘Some Small Heaven‘ seems as appropriate and meaningful to me as it did the first time I read it.

The Hope of the Few

When the powerful manipulate the truth,

when the powerless are exploited,

and we who seek good seem incapable of bringing change, 

where is hope?

Advent is the celebration of the few.

Of the small.

Of the unknown and the unnoticed.

Never forget the potential

of a prayer made in seclusion,

of one generous action,

of some small gesture of faith,

or of a simple blessing 

– to scatter the proud 

and to shatter their illusion that theirs is the last word.

As alone as you may feel.

As small, as unknown or as unnoticed.

Your prayers, your generosity, your gestures, and your blessings

will heal the world.

Image, by Si Smith.