Sunday, 10 December 2017

LET THE WILDERNESS EXULT!

PRAYER PAUSE  (Connected again!)


Monday 11 December 2017


LET THE WILDERNESS EXULT!


Pause. Enter into the stillness of God within.


Reading: “Let the wilderness and the dry lands exult, let the wasteland  rejoice and bloom!”  (Isaiah 33:1-10)



Reflection. In Advent we feast on the words of hope in Isaiah which are coupled with “signs” of fulfilment of his words from the gospels. Today they are from Luke 5:17-26.  “Let the dry lands exult!” We live the long dry season each year which has embedded in it our looking forward to the rains. We lived the long “37 years” which had embedded in it the hope which arrived and “bloomed” for a moment on 18 November past. We have lived frustrations and weariness in our own lives but Advent reminds us of the hope we have embedded in our faith. Can my own dry heart receive this message? This rain? Can I allow my own weakness to be my strength, as Paul tells us?  


Prayer. Lord, help us to receive the “rain” of your grace, your love. Help us to see our weakness as our strength. Amen.



































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