Come Holy Child
Stir in the womb of our complacency
Shepherd us
Whisper through our lives
Be born in us today
Song “We are enough”
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A candle is lit.
We light a candle for hope, sending
prayers high into the inky heavens and
dreams deep into our human soul.
We light a candle for hope. May it light our way.
We say the Lord’s Prayer in our own language
Reading Isaiah 11
Then a shoot will spring from the stem of Jesse,
And a Branch from his roots will bear fruit.
2 The Spirit of the Lord will rest on Him,
The spirit of wisdom and understanding,
The spirit of counsel and strength,
The spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.
We pray this Advent time, a time of waiting, for peace, throughout the world, for Gaza, for Ukraine, where little children cannot sleep because of the sound of bombs falling, where people are imprisoned for protesting about the abuse of human rights, where temperatures soar because of climate change and forests burn, for the vulnerable in this Covid time and those sick and dying, for the homeless in their own country and those far from home, for asylum seekers and refugees the world over.
May we not fail you though we face great dangers.
Give us your peace, your wisdom and your strength. Amen
Song “The Lord is my salvation”
In our watching and in our waiting
Come Lord Jesus
In our hopes and our fears
Come Lord Jesus
In our homes and in our world
Come Lord Jesus
Come Lord Jesus, when least expected.
