Lord our God,
the joy of Advent brings us together. But how many of us still know what Advent is?
In a world driven by speed and immediacy, do we still know how to wait?
Yet waiting makes life good. It brings a thrill of joy to the present.
But to savour waiting, perhaps we also need to know what’s missing,
the hollow of an unfulfilled desire.
This evening we offer you our Advent prayer, a prayer of expectation that comes to us from the mists of time…
so vast is your Promise…
Receive, Lord, our expectation, which is already illuminated by a mysterious Presence:
He who has come, who is coming and who will come.