Advent Art Prayer 8
The Light Shines in the Darkness and the Darkness has not Overcome it.
John 1:5
God of Grace,
Break into our lives.
Warm our hearts and mend our minds.
Show yourself to us in the places that evoke fear and shame, transforming us into messengers of your peace.
Teach us to reflect your grace into the world.
Make us reflections of your peace so that we might bring comfort and healing into the lives of our neighbors.
Help us overcome messages of exclusion by being instruments of your work for justice.
We ask all this in the name of your Son.
Amen
Practice Deeper Listening
Inhale:
May your love
Exhale:
be reflected in my life
Inhale:
May I work
Exhale:
to bring your justice
For Deeper Listening
Where has God brought you comfort this week?
Establish your Advent Practice.
Step 1: Set up a space in your home for your Advent readings. Make it comfortable. Add a candle. Perhaps next to your tree or at a table with a little festive placemat.
Step 2: Determine two times of the day when you might practice them so that if you miss the first one, you can lean into the second and not feel guilty.
Step 3: Each time you sit down to practice your Advent devotion, make a warm cup of something and begin with a couple of moments of silence and deep breathing. Close your eyes and breath in deeply the love of God for you. Ask the Spirit to join you. Then begin your readings.
Step 4: Have a little prayer journal nearby where you can list the things that stick with you or stand out to you during your devotion.
Step 5: Close your time with a couple of moments of silent deep breathing, thanking God for the love and grace that are freely given to you that claims you as God’s own.