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Waiting for the Messiah Someplace Else
Motel: Rabbi, we've been waiting for the Messiah all our
lives. Wouldn't now be a good time for him to come?
Rabbi: I guess we'll have to wait someplace else.
-Fiddler
on the Roof
And so we wait, here where
we are, the time
Marked off by calends and
by candlelight
Four Gospels in a ring of
holy fire
Before the Altar, and
before the Throne
The Magi journey through
space and time
Our journey is in waiting
for a star
To shine upon us all, and
lead us to
The Temple where all
waiting finally ends
Beside an Altar of repose
in a Stable
A cradle of wood from Eden
and the Ark
