Our Advent Calendar --- 8 December 2020

 

Dec 8 – Tuesday

 

Almighty God,

Help us to look forward

to the glory of the birth of Christ our saviour:

His coming is proclaimed joyfully

to the ends of the earth,

For he lies and reign with you and the Holy Spirit,

One God, for ever and ever.

 

Isaiah 4:2, 5-6

² On that day the branch of the Lord shall be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land shall be the pride and glory of the survivors of Israel. 

⁵ Then the Lord will create over the whole site of Mount Zion and over its places of assembly a cloud by day and smoke and the shining of a flaming fire by night. Indeed over all the glory there will be a canopy. ⁶ It will serve as a pavilion, a shade by day from the heat, and a refuge and a shelter from the storm and rain.

 

 

“Waiting is a period of learning. The longer we wait, the more we hear about him for whom we are waiting.”

—Henri Nouwen