God -
Your word comes to us in the specificity and wilderness of our lives.
May we take this word into all the regions within us and surrounding us. May we proclaim repentance and forgiveness of sins.
May we be voices that cry out Your word…voices that cry out Your promises.
Valleys shall be filled! Mountains shall be made low! The crooked shall be straight! The rough ways shall be made smooth!
All flesh shall see Your salvation!
May Your promises break into our specificity and wilderness.
Amen.
(The Second Sunday of Advent is 12/5.)