Pause for Prayer: FRIDAY 12/5

They watch for Christ

    who are sensitive, eager, 

        apprehensive in mind;

who are awake, alive, quick-sighted, 

    zealous in honoring him;

who look for him in all that happens 

    and who would not be surprised,

who would not be over-agitated or overwhelmed,

    if they found that he was coming at once...

This then is to watch:

    to be detached from what is present

        and to live in what is unseen;

to live in the thought of Christ as he came once,

    and as he will come again;

to desire his second coming,

    from our affectionate and grateful remembrance 

        of his first.

-  St. John Henry Newman

Lord,

    rescue me from boredom, tedium and inertia,

        from anxiety, sorrow and fear...

 

Lord,

    relieve me of distraction, doubt and confusion,

        of disappointment, regret and indifference...

 

Lord, wake me, rouse and hearten me

    to wait, to watch, to look for you,

to anticipate your coming 

    and expect your arrival...

 

You've come into the world already, Lord,

    and into my life you'll come again 

and again and again and again,

    today, tonight and tomorrow...

 

And then next week, next month, next year

    and again at the last when the waiting's done,

when the watch is over and you call me home

    to the peace that waits for those who watch...

Amen.

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