A reflection for Advent, featuring the poetry of R. S. Thomas. First broadcast as part of the Church Times and Canterbury Press Advent Retreat in November 2020.

Carys Walsh has worked in ministerial selection and formation for many years, including in the Ministry Division of the Church of England, as a psychotherapist, as a tutor in Christian Spirituality at St Mellitus, and in the Diocese of Peterborough, where she is also an assistant priest.

Editing by Captive North.