People
of God: awake!
The
day is coming soon
when
you shall see God face to face.
Remember
the ways and the works of God.
God
calls you out of darkness
to
walk in the light of his coming.
You
are God’s children.
Lord,
make us one as we walk with Christ
today
and for ever.
Amen.
The
day is coming soon when…
One
of the phrases of 2020 has been ‘the new normal’. But there is nothing normal (absolutely
necessary, but not normal) about wearing masks and keeping 2 metres apart:
these are, more honestly, our new abnormal. Now, as we come to the end of the
year, there are grounds for hope that a vaccination programme will allow us to
move into a new normal by this time next year. A new normal, not a return to
the old one.
‘Advent’
literally means a season of getting ready, of preparing our lives
for the new day coming. What is the new day, the new normal, you are hoping
for? That dream might be of a fresh start, a new job, or a new love; or of ensuring
that as a society we engage better with the pandemic of isolation. What is the
new day you hope for, and what could you be doing right now to prepare for its arrival?
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