Here’s
a litany (or even call to worship) for Advent from Katherine Hawker’s Liturgies Outside website.
Advent Litany
(incorporating
Zephaniah 3: 17-18, Jeremiah 33: 15, Baruch 5: 7, Malachi 5: 4-5)
The LORD, your God,
is in your midst,
a warrior who gives
victory;
he will rejoice over you
with gladness,
he will renew you in
his love;
he will exult over
you with loud singing
as on a day of
festival.
(Zephaniah 3:17-18)
Yet
ours is an upside down victory.
In those days and at that
time
I will cause a righteous
Branch to spring up for David;
and he shall execute
justice and righteousness in the land. (Jeremiah 33:15)
Ours
is a story of power in humility.
For God has ordered
that every high mountain
and the everlasting
hills be made low
and the valleys
filled up,to make level ground,
so that Israel may
walk safely in the glory of God. (Baruch 5:7)
Ours
is a story of strength in vulnerability.
And he shall stand
and feed his flock in the strength of the LORD,
in the majesty of the
name of the LORD his God.
And they shall live secure,
for now he shall be
great to the ends of the earth;
and he shall be the
one of peace.
(Micah 5:4-5)
Ours
is a story of a baby deemed king,
of
a carpenter's son praying alone,
of
a Roman execution.
The
Lord, our God, is in our midst.
May
we have eyes to see and ears to hear.
Amen.
~ written by Katherine Hawker. Posted on Liturgies Outside. http://liturgyoutside.net/
