What do you want God to restore?
In our secret yearnings we wait for your coming, and in our grinding despair we doubt that you will. And in this privileged place we are surrounded by witnesses who yearn more than do we and by those who despair more deeply than do we. Look upon your church … in this season of hope which runs so quickly to fatigue and in this season of yearning which becomes so easily quarrelsome. Give us the grace and the impatience to wait for your coming to the bottom of our toes, to the edges of our fingertips. We do not want our several worlds to end. Come in your power and come in your weakness in any case and make all things new..
Walter Brueggemann, Awed to Heaven, Rooted in Earth: Prayers of Walter Brueggemann, (Minneapolis: Fortress Press)
| ADVENT (Year C) November 28 Advent 1 Jeremiah 33:14-16 Psalm 25:1-10 1 Thessalonians 3:9-13 Luke 21:25-36 | CHRISTMASTIDE December 26 1 Samuel 2:18-20, 26 Psalm 148 Colossians 3:12-17 Luke 2:41-52 |
| December 5 Advent 2 Baruch 5:1-5 Luke 1:68-79 Philippians 1:3-11 Luke 3:1-6 | January 2 Jeremiah 31:7-14 Psalm 147:12-20 Ephesians 1:3-14 John 1:1-18 |
| December 12 Advent 3 Zephaniah 3:14-20 Isaiah 12:2-6 Philippians 4:4-7 Luke 3:7-18 | EPIPHANY January 9 Epiphany Observed Isaiah 60:1-6 Psalm 72:1-7, 10-14 Ephesians 3:1-12 Matthew 2:1-12 |
| December 19 Advent 4 Micah 5:2-5a Psalm 80:1-7 Hebrews 10:5-10 Luke 1:39-55 |
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