they are all within my reach

they are free.

White people smell like dogs when they're wet...

I was biking to class, and it started to rain. Cold rain.

The first cold rain of the season.

It sucked.

It sucked because I had to go to class, and I was going to have to sit in class wet. And, as Elliot says in an episode of Scrubs, “White people smell like dogs when they’re wet.” I was going to have to sit in class wet & cold, smelling like a dog…

But what made that bike ride especially terrible was I had just had an awesome talk with Joe. That was the conversation when Joe and I started to talk about working on this Advent project.

So, I had been talking with him about all these exciting ideas; and, like I said earlier, it started to rain. Biking to class, getting soaked, I thought about that conversation. I thought about how spoiled I was that some rain was going to sour my day. And then I heard metal on metal; and a whizzing sound…

Great.

My pedals lost their tension.

My bike shifted behind me and my weight shifted forward. All of it.

I ate it…

Over my handlebars.

It sucked.

Churchy jargon.

It is Advent. Advent, that is church-speak. Advent, is the season of expectant waiting. Waiting for the birth of “God With Us,” or Emmanuel, or Jesus.

Again, this is church-speak.

So, it is Advent. Walking my bike to class, late, I had plenty of time to think about what I was waiting for.

Ultimately, I think I am waiting for the day I will get over myself.

If the worst thing that happens to me is a get wet on my way to class; the world is going to be waiting on me.

Justice and peace will be dawning and I’ll be sitting in the corner pouting because I hadn’t finished writing my magna opus! The house-party of peace will be descending like a bright chandelier; the waiting will be over and I’ll holding up the deejay from playing “Dream of Dreams” because I spilled some of my Starbucks on my new hoodie.

Let me be clear, there is a lot I am waiting on, but first and foremost I am waiting on a turkey; myself.

Let’s get it together RoboPreacher, its time for a new exodus...