Advent Family Prayer
Lord, help us to prepare our hearts
for the coming of your son Jesus.
Help us to focus on your light during this holy season.
Draw our family closer together as we move through Advent
toward the feast of your Son’s birth.
Each week we light a new candle on our Advent Wreath.
We place our HOPE in you.
We pray for PEACE in our hearts, our homes and in the
world.
We wait with JOY for your coming anew into our hearts.
And we thank you for your everlasting LOVE this Christmas.
The evergreens on the wreath remind us
that your life in us never dies.
Its circular shape shows us your love has no beginning or
end.
The light from its candles will grow brighter
each week as Christmas draws near.
Draw our family closer to you in holiness as we reflect in
wonder and awe on the birth of your Son in a lowly manger
in Bethlehem.
And may your Spirit grow in us,
dispelling the darkness and sin of the world.
We ask all this through Christ our Lord.
Amen.