Scripture: Isaiah 64:1-12
Now some are lost in shopping malls and some on battlefields
And some are lost in suburbs and some on capitol hills
Some are lost on terminal wards or in a nursing home
And some are equally as lost in between their headphones
But whatever your coordinates on your map of shame
Rather close or far away we’re all lost just the same
The birth of births was like a death
Under that hallowed star
Still every father know and cares
Where his sons and daughters are
Bill Mallonee, “Every Father Knows”
“It’s still not Christmas, but it’s also still not the great last Advent, the last coming of Christ. Through all the Advents of our life that we celebrate runs the longing for the last Advent, when the word will be: ‘See, I am making all things new’ (Rev. 21:5).”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, God is in the Manger
O King within the child within the clay,
O hidden King who shapes us in the play
Of all creation. Shape us for the day
Your coming Kingdom comes into its own.
Malcom Guite, O Rex Gentium (O King of the Nations)
“Remember that this God in whose hand are all creatures, is your Father, and is much more tender of you than you are, or can be, of yourself.”
John Flavel, Keeping the Heart
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