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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