How quickly we fill this season of Advent with our to do lists

Occupy our Calendars

Walter Brueggamann From Awed to Heaven, Rooted in Earth.

Our times are in your hands:

But we count our times for us:

we count our days and fill them with us;

we count our weeks and fill them with our busyness:

we count our years and fill them with our fears.

And then caught up short with your claim,

Our times are in your hands!

Take our times, times of love and times of weariness,

Take them all, bless them and break them,

give them to us again,

slow paced and eager,

fixed in your readiness for neighbour.

Occupy our calendars,

Flood us with itsy-bitsy, daily kairoi,

In the name of your fleshed karios. Amen

Praying for each of you as diaries fill up.

Praying for you as ‘to do lists’ expand.

Praying for the wisdom to let God speak first before you say yes or no.

Praying for the peace to lay down good works that are not God’s good works for you.

Praying as you wonder what to do with each expectation others have that come to you.

Praying that you know that God is the One who can meet those expectations and that He may or may not use you in that.

As ever please get in touch if you want us to pray with you around a specific matter.