A Benediction – 

As you go, awakened to the injustices around you,
Access your anger,
Lean into lament,
Engage in embrace,
Actually act,
And remember that the hope of Advent is the coming of Emmanuel,
Table-flipper,
Graveside-weeper,
Prostitute-hugger,
Freer-of-the-oppressed
Light-in-the-darkness,
God-with-us,
Go in peace