As we light the candle for the first Sunday in Advent, we need to consider what does it mean for us to be the light of the world? We have taken the theme of forgiveness and looked at forgiving others as God’s means of breaking through the darkness of our world consumed by hate. So when you light your Advent candle today and even throughout this week, consider practicing forgiveness with those who have caused you pain and you need to pray the peace of Christ over them. Every night before you sleep pray the light of Jesus over those people by forgiving them. “The forgiveness you give out is the forgiveness you get back.”
No longer shall they teach one another or say to each other, "Know the Lord," for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, says the Lord.
Jeremiah 31:34
When the chief priests and the scribes saw the amazing things that he did and heard the children crying out in the temple and saying, "Hosanna to the Son of David," they became angry and said to him, "Do you hear what these are saying?" Jesus said to them, "Yes; have you never read, 'Out of the mouths of infants and nursing babies you have prepared praise for yourself?'"
Matthew 21:15-16
God, you know our prayers before we even breathe them. Though you know my words help me to say them anyway, for I need to hear them. Thank you for declaring that infants and babies can know you just as much as scholars and priests. You were there for our first prayer and will be there for our last. Amen.
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