Advent Devotional for December 8th

"And let everyone who hears say, 'Come.' And let everyone who is thirsty say, 'come.' Let anyone who wished take the water of life as a gift." - Revelation 22:17

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"The infant stretches to the strengthening sun

the infant stretches, sensate, wakening

And, widening with the flowers his star-black eyes

Turns with the earth out to the years that opens."

- Jenny Joseph, Spring and Summer
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"But when he had seen again the face of this world, enjoyed water and sun, warm stones and the sea, he no longer wanted to go back to the infernal darkness."

- Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
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Gracious God, Creator of every new day and all that sustains us in it, give us the strength and the love we need to do your work as make our way through the world. Amen.

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