Prayer for December

 

During December we think about invitations and gifts, with this prayer and reflection taken from the MU Prayer Diary.

 

Gracious God, we gladly accept and give thanks for your invitation to venture with you through this season of Advent. As we await in anticipation the promises foretold by the prophets ‘behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a son’, may we be ready at his birth, to recognise the gift of your Son and be well prepared to love and serve him.

Amen.

 

 

Reflection: As we enter the seasons of Advent and Christmas – let’s think about invitations.

December is such a time of preparation: invitations, messages and cards, feasts and parties, gifts and secrets, travel plans or bed-making and welcoming!

It may also be a time of repentance; deep sorrow and loneliness, frustrated hopes and dreams, financial difficulties or, for so many in our world, of hunger and fear.

Let’s prepare our hearts and minds to receive the greatest gift, Christ.

 

 

 

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