Saturday the Third Week of Advent
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"Hear my prayer,0 God; do not hide yourself from my petition. Listen to me and answer me; I have no peace, because of my cares." -Psalm 55:1-2
Prayer
Hold close dear God,
those who are wearied, worried, and worn.
Renew the restless, reassure the reluctant,
revive the ravaged, restore the restive;
all for the sake of your Love. Amen.
Reflection: ORDINARY
We don't want an ordinary God. We don't want a God who comes into our everyday lives and interferes with our well-ordered and familiar messiness. We don't want a God who gets dirty in the ditches of life. We would rather a cleaned up God. We would rather a God who is pristine and distant. We prefer a God that is worshiped and adored from a distance, because a God like that would make no demands on our lives.
Scripture reminds us that we get a God who comes to be a part of our lives both when things are going well and when things fall apart. We get in Jesus Christ, God made flesh, who endures the same hardships and pains, the same yearnings and longings that we too experience. We want an extraordinary God and instead we get a God who calls the ordinary to do the extraordinary.
As we turn our gaze towards Bethlehem once more, we are reminded that God is not distant or far removed but that God is born into the messiness of our world precisely because we need a God who carries us through life rather than fishing us out of it.
God meets us in the chaos and the calm and carries us when we are weary, soothes us when we are worried, challenge us when we are comfortable, and uses us in our ordinariness to accomplish far more than we can imagine. May God who dwells in the ordinary transform you to bear witness to the extraordinary power of love.
Action
Refocus. Find something in your home that is seems ordinary. Spend some time carefully looking at that object for the extraordinary hiding in plain sight.
Tags: Advent 2023