Month: December 2019

         Prepare the way of the Holy One,
         make God’s paths straight
                  —Matthew 3.3

Is there room for the child in the inn?
How do I prepare a way for God
through my cluttered life?
How do I clear a straight path
through my schedule?

Some things have to be moved or tossed,
a vacancy created.
How my nature abhors this vacuum!

Shall I plead I can’t squeeze God in?
Or take courage and prepare a way?

God, help me to open a way for you
to enter my heart, my time, my desires.
Even when I want so many other things,
give me grace to want you.
Prepare your way in me.
Make room.

Breath prayer:

         Prepare… your way

__________________
Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net

December 3, 2019

         You know what time it is,
                  how it is now the moment
                  for you to wake from sleep.
         For salvation is nearer to us now
                  than when we became believers;
         the night is far gone,
                  the day is near.
                           —Romans 13.11-12
                  
How little my despair
actually knows,
sure as it it is.
How willingly I believe
my unseeing night,
accept such a small world.
But it extends beyond,
beyond my imagining.
Your grace moves beneath us
tectonically, the core seethes.
Unswayed by the certainty
of my doubt
the earth turns,
your dawn rolls
toward me.

__________________
Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net

December 2, 2019