Advent Devotional for December 16th

Picture taken by the Rev. Jeff Garrison, First Presbyterian Church of Hastings (Michigan)

"I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in His word I hope; my soul waits for the Lord, more than those who watch for the morning, more than those who watch for the morning." - Psalm 130:5-6

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..."now, leaning far out over an immense depth, letting your name go and waiting, somewhere between faith and doubt for the echoes of its arrival." - R.S. Thomas

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"It is only in renouncing diversion... it is only when the apparent absurdity of life is faced in all truth, that faith actually becomes possible." - Fr. Thomas Merton

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"The simple longing, the simple desire for God, is already the beginning of faith." - Brother Roger of Taizé

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How many years have You been waiting and watching for me to return? While I have been thinking my own waiting for You is futile... You have never given me up. Amen.

(St. Martin-in-the-Fields - 2005 Advent Devotional)