Second Day of Advent
O God,
Help us to remember that you keep your promises in unexpected and surprising ways.
After all, while lots of people were looking for a Messiah, few if any expected that he would be born to a poor family, executed on a cross, and raised from the dead.
So help us to trust in the promise that Jesus Christ will come again but let us remember that he might come in unexpected and surprising ways.
And help us to trust in the promise that Jesus Christ comes to us here and now but let us remember that he comes to us in unexpected and surprising ways. In fact, he may have already come to us in ways that were so unexpected that we didn’t even notice.
Thank you that you keep your promises.
Thank you that your keeping of your promises is not limited by our expectations.
Help us to keep our eyes, our hearts, our minds—help us to keep our lives—wide open to however you choose to come to us.
Amen.
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