Saturday, December 12, 2020

Advent day 14 (2020)

 


 

People of God: be glad!

Your God delights in you,

giving you joy for sadness

and turning the dark to light.

Be strong in hope therefore;

for your God comes to save.

You are God’s children.

Lord, make us one in the love of Christ

today and for ever.

Amen.

 

Make us one in the love of Christ.

This is the time of year when it is most likely that a jigsaw puzzle will be taken out in our house. Indeed, my wife remakes one particular one each year, an icon of the nativity, for which she holds back several pieces for the Advent calendar boxes on the mantlepiece. And the jigsaw is a beautiful illustration of how God is at work to make us one:

not in uniformity, but in each piece, with its unique shape and colours, finding its fit alongside others, all coming together, patiently, to reveal a harmonious whole, a world of wonder.

‘Make us one in the love of Christ’ is, perhaps, the Advent prayer for every day of our lives, for the reason Jesus came into the world, and will return again, is to reconcile all things. Some days, it looks like a jumbled pile of puzzle pieces, but there is a template, and a goal in view.

 

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