Advent 2017: Waiting for God
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Waiting for God is like waiting for your next heartbeat
Eager anticipation
Forming spiritual elation
A collective breath Held throughout all creation
Weakness abounds in every earthly nation
All things can be done through Christ and salvation
Just as a child craves to be born
This world desires The veil to be torn
God give me not stillness
For apathy is death
Let me feel purpose
Until my last breath
Loneliness weighs Like the stone of a mill
The struggle isn't just
Between you and your will
Sin is the world
Tempting the flesh
Soul, spirit and body
together must mesh
To stand fast against sin is a battle to heed
But we must have a Captain A Savior to lead
The gift that is given
Shall be received A love I can not
Begin to perceive
New time, new day, new page, new way
As much as the trees promise new leaves
The Father will heal This world that grieves
Jesus was sent to intercede This certainly is A Merry Christmas indeed
Connor Murphy has learned some very important lessons since he began apprenticing Jesus. Two that stand out: God wants to speak with us more than we want to speak with him, and God doesn't promise that faith will make all things easy, but possible.
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