Advent 2018 - Week Four
A PRAYER FOR ADVENT WEEK 4 by Revd Mary Taylor Generous, loving God, Our hearts are lifted to you as our gracious father and life-giving mother. We are your children and you have made us to be enfolded in your family. We praise and thank you that through Jesus, we are adopted as your sons and daughters, chosen and dearly loved.
Thank you especially for every family into which children have been adopted and chosen. Give your wisdom and patience to each parent, and the healing of hope to each child. We ask that you unfold for them a better future through being loved and embraced in generous families. Through your gifts of hope and grace help each family and each community to be a place of human flourishing and not of loneliness or suffering. Jesus, help us to share the word of hope to all we meet. Deepen our own hope and trust in you so that we can give away what we have ourselves received. Thank you that hope is a big word! Amen |