Human Advent Wreath
ADVENT 1 INVOCATION 2008
This is the opening words to this weeks Advent Worship Gathering, written by Jon Glenn. We started around the Christ Candle in the entry way, so it wasn’t capture in the recording of the service.
Welcome to Advent at Church of the Beloved. Advent is a womb for hope. And it’s here that we wait and watch for what may be birthed among us, reminded of the great mystery of the incarnation and reminded that those who have been created by God now birth God into the world.
So wait here a while, for even as God formed us in our mother’s womb, God is now forming hope in us.
Watch here a while, both like the expectant mother and like the child waiting to be born.
The child has no idea what awaits on the other side of the womb.
The infant cannot even imagine that there is another side of the womb…
Likewise we wait, unsure of what to hope for, but allowing God to grow a hope in us that something beyond our wildest imagining is about to come.
Jesus Christ, gathered around this candle,
we remember the ways you have come into our midst,
we trust that you are among us even now,
and we long for your coming to us again. Amen.
Let us each light a candle for the One who is hope beyond our imagination and brings hope through our imagination.
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