Prayer for the First Sunday in Advent
"Loving God, during these days of Advent, we
meditate upon the meaning of your coming.
We approach you and wonder at all as we prepare to
welcome the Christ, whom you have so sacrificially sent.
How thankful we are for His assurance that you do not
leave us alone -
Into our highest joys and satisfactions you send light
and warmth.
Into our experiences of worship, you bring insight
and renewal.
Into our times of stress and uncertainty you infuse
strength and faith.
We rejoice in your transforming work going on in us
and in the world, your work that nothing can stop.
We come to you as seekers as curious Children wanting
to explore the Mysteries of your grace and love.
Like Mary and Joseph,
we seek to experience the Christmas miracle ourselves
Like the shepherds,
we seek to worship at the manger in Bethlehem
Like the angels,
we seek to join the multitude of the heavenly host to
sing glory to you in the highest.
Give us sensitive spirits, attentive minds, and
receptive hearts, we pray.
Begin your work in us anew, that we might reflect your
light and life in every environment in which we find ourselves.
Show us how we may more fully receive the gift of
Jesus, who is the sign of your presence in the world.
Bring to our awareness the places in our inner spirits
where He has yet to enter - the places where we have resisted Him, rejected
Him, run from Him.
Help us to invite Him to enter now. Grant that during
this Advent season, we might hear His Word and experience His grace as if for
the first time, that we might respond with renewed commitment.
O God, rekindle the romance of our faith,
Awaken us to the attraction and the passion and the
devotion of Jesus Christ.
Let His hope live in us, not for our own sake only,
but for the sake of your eternal kingdom both in heaven and on earth.
In all things and in all ways, make us people who think
and act in peace, that the world may know of your saving love.
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