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Opening Prayer: New every morning is your love, great God of Light, and all day long you are working for good in your world.  Stir up in us the desire to serve you and to devote each day to your Son, our Savior, Jesus.  We praise you with joy, loving God, because your grace is better than life itself.  Once again you have sustained us through the darkness and blessed us with light in this new day.  Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.  In your tender compassion the morning sun has once again risen upon us, to shine on us in our darkness and to guide our feet into the paths of peace.  For this, and all of your mercies, we give you thanks.  Amen.

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Scripture: Isaiah 42:1-9

Journal: Do you have any sense that something is being born anew within you these days?  Spend a little time in silence today asking God to announce it to you.  What do you sense he is saying?  How does this passage from Isaiah apply to your life right now?

Reflection: “See, the former things have taken place, and new things I declare; before they spring into being I announce them to you.” (Isaiah 42:9)  Yes, the new will come; just you wait.  And when it does, it will be glorious.  So wait for it patiently and expectantly, it will not me much longer.

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Closing Prayer: The new is coming, O God, for you have promised that it is so.  Give us the grace and the courage and the patience to wait for it joyfully and expectantly.  Come, Lord Jesus!