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 Loving God, we people are always trying to find our way home. Unlike the other creatures with whom we share life on this Earth, we sometimes forget that this is what we want and need. Beneath our anxiety, our activities, some part of which cover our anxieties, beneath the things we say are important to us, there is an inner knowledge of our need to be home at last. During the sunny times of the year, we are usually able to stay unaware of this need. But now, with less and less sunlight, we become clearer about wanting to be home. I think, God, that our being here in the Diocese of California today, surrounded in the increasing darkness by visions of Advent and Christmas, with people we love and with people we don’t know but whom we may have realized we love as well, that this is part of our search for home, for you, our truest and best home, our heart. Hear our prayer, and know that we pray for all humanity and the Earth itself.
Amen.
May the Sun of Righteousness light your paths in this season,
May the Prince of Peace be born in your midst,
May the One in whom we hope bring all things to their fullness
and may the blessing of God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit be upon you and remain with you forever.
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