Advent Devotional for December 23rd



River Fowey, Cornwall



"Where can I go from your spirit?

Or where can I flee from your presence?

If I ascend to heaven, you are there;

If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there.

If I take the wings of the morning

and settle at the farthest limits of the sea,

even there your hand shall lead me,

and your right hand shall hold me fast.

- Psalm 138:7-10

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"You were on board, you set sail,

you have made the harbour.

Step ashore without fear:

nothing is void of God,

not in any place, now or hereafter."

- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 3:3

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As a tree grows, it pushes its frontiers deeper into the soil,

and higher into the sky.

Lord God, help me to believe that wherever I go, you have already gone before. Give me the courage to live with faith and with imagination to the ends of my Earth. Amen.

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