PRAYER PAUSE
Tuesday 6 December 2016, Nicholas
CONSOLE MY
PEOPLE!
Pause. Enter into the stillness of God
within.
Reading: “Console my people, console them”
says the Lord. “Speak to the heart of Jerusalem and call to her …” (Isaiah
40:1-11)
Reflection. “The breaking in of the kingdom” is
a phrase I really like and which I have met again and again over the past few years.
It is a way of conveying God’s burning desire to reach his people and fill them
with the life he has destined for them. Like a child battered by some new experience
we turn to our mother in Advent and find consolation. The gospel that goes with
this Isaiah reading today speaks of the Father reaching out to the one out of a
hundred who is lost. So in Advent we allow ourselves to bathe in his experience
of God’s consoling arrival.
Prayer. Lord, may
we know the consolation of your coming and draw strength and joy. Amen.
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