On the First Sunday of Advent, Rob Bell led the people of Mars Hill Bible Church in the following prayer:
God, we ask you to meet us in this season in new ways. We want to practice the discipline of anticipation. We ask for great wisdom in discerning the ways in which we have lost the ability to be filled with wonder and awe. We asked to be wide-eyed. We ask to be surprised.
For the ways in which we have lost even the energy to expect, we ask to be given fresh energies, fresh capacities. To assume that extraordinary things are unfolding right here in our midst. There is a divine mystery that enfolds and surrounds us, that embraces us, that reminds us that we are loved, that we only have this moment and this moment is good.
Please open us where we are closed, melt us where we are cold and release us where we have become captive. In the name of the Jesus whose birth we anticipate. Who comes, and forgives, and releases, and restores and redeems, and renews - in His name we pray all this."
AMEN!
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