Prayers for Advent: Love

  

O God, we give you thanks for choosing to enter our world as Emmanuel, God-with-us. As we journey through Advent, let us know you light and presence. We actively wait for you to enter our lives again in a new way that we may know your love is truly written upon our hearts. Amen.

 In Advent, we wait upon the Lord: awaiting signs of hope, peace, joy, and love. We gather in hopeful expectation. We gather to give praise to God for the promise that the Christ child will be born to us again this year.

We gather with anticipation, awaiting God’s light in our lives, awaiting God’s presence that comes to the dark places in our hearts and in our world. Yet, we confess that, at times, it is hard for us to see the blessings that God has for us. Love is a risk, but it is a risk upon which the very heart of our life depends.