Opening Prayer:
Our soul waits for the Lord; he is our help and our shield. For our heart is glad in him, because we
trust in his holy name. Let your
steadfast love, O Lord, be upon us, even as we hope in you. (Psalm 33:20-22)
Scripture: Psalm
62:1-12
Journal: What
are you putting your hope in these days?
During this season, what does it look like to put your hope in God’s
unfailing love?
Reflection:
Advent is a time of the
unexpected gift, both in our remembering and in our hoping. It is a season when we recognize that God
became flesh in a place emptied of comfort and privilege, a presence that took
form in a forlorn crib as the start of a journey that would carry all the way
to an ignominious cross. It remains a
season haunted by such memories. . . , longing as we do for some trace of the
One who was among us for a season and whose coming again we await in life’s
long winter. (The Hardest Love We Carry by Mark S. Burrows, Weavings)
Prayer
Closing Prayer: O
God, you brought all things into being and know the secrets of the furthest
galaxies as well as those within the hidden universe of the human heart. May we always hope in your faithful love,
which surrounds us all our days. Amen. (A Guide to Prayer for All Who Walk with God by
Rueben P. Job, Norman Shawchuck, and John S. Mogabgab)
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