We see the plight of the world's poor and the raging forces of war, persecution, violence and injustice. Those realities cause us to dream, work, pray and hope anew for the reign of God to come on earth and soon. If we could change these references from being time oriented to seeing them as our constant prayer that we might become all that we were meant to be, living fully, loving wastefully and having the courage to be our deepest, most real selves, then I think we would understand what the prayer for Christ to come soon was originally meant to communicate.

- John Shelby Spong

I am sure that this is how our friends who are pastors and many of the authors I enjoy reading would explain the Lord's Prayer and the talk of "Christ coming again."