Four Tree Lieder for Waiting with Creation - Advent Week 3

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Four Tree Lieder for Waiting with Creation

An Advent Song Cycle for Sarah Holman

Poetry by Tiffany Eberle Kriner

Music by Xavier Beteta

Sarah Holman, mezzo-soprano

Mary Hopper, piano

Nathaniel Holman, percussion

Timothy Holman, viola

For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God. We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies. For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.

Romans 8: 20-25

Third Week of Advent: Waiting by a Winter Forest Waterfall with a Bare, Weeping Cherry Tree

Potamoisi toisin autoisin embainousin hetera kai hetera hudata epirrei. On those stepping into rivers staying the same other and other waters flow. (Cleanthes from Arius Didymus from Eusebius)

The aging grey

snow slicks here, so

I will stand still.

Water falls, the

stream’s branches like

weeping cherries:

grow out, seek sky,

then bend down, mull

sod. Trees along the

falls wait--same

stream, other and

other water.

It’s no good to

measure how long--

look: something moves

and it’s not you.

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