Season of Graces moving into Advent 2013

Believe it or not, but for 2013 the first Sunday of Advent starts on December 1 - the Sunday of the four day USA Thanksgiving Weekend. As we've been working through table blessings during November as a Season of Grace, I thought I would provide a table grace for Advent - one that could be used as an ongoing part of your Advent Spiritual Practice. More about Advent on Monday.

Blessed Be,

Joel

          Advent
Into the bleakest winters of our souls, Lord, you are tiptoeing on tine Infant feet to find us, hold our hands. May we drop whatever it is we are so busy about these days to accept this gesture so small that it may get overlooked in our frantic search for something massive and overwhelming. Remind us that it is not you who demands large, lavish celebrations and enormous strobe-lit displays of faith. Rather, you ask only that we have the faith of a mustard seed and willingness to let a small hand take ours. We are ready.
          ~ Margaret Anne Huffman

Cotner. Graces. (1994). 45.