Praying Advent: Day 11
Praise
Lauds (Traditional hour: dawn/waking up)Laudate, omnes gentes, laudate Dominum! [Sing praises, all people, sing praises to the Lord!]We greet the new day by praising the Creator.
Opening:
Praise the Lord, O my soul:Praise God’s holy name.
Scripture
To whom then will you compare me,or who is my equal? says the Holy One.
Lift up your eyes on high and see:Who created these?
He who brings out their host and numbers them,calling them all by name;
because he is great in strength,mighty in power,not one is missing.
Why do you say, O Jacob,and speak, O Israel,
‘My way is hidden from the Lord,and my right is disregarded by my God’?
Have you not known? Have you not heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God,the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He does not faint or grow weary;his understanding is unsearchable.
He gives power to the faint,and strengthens the powerless.
Even youths will faint and be weary,and the young will fall exhausted;
but those who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength,they shall mount up with wings like eagles,
they shall run and not be weary,they shall walk and not faint.
Lift up your eyes on high and see:Who created these?
He who brings out their host and numbers them,calling them all by name;
because he is great in strength,mighty in power,not one is missing.
Why do you say, O Jacob,and speak, O Israel,
‘My way is hidden from the Lord,and my right is disregarded by my God’?
Have you not known? Have you not heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God,the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He does not faint or grow weary;his understanding is unsearchable.
He gives power to the faint,and strengthens the powerless.
Even youths will faint and be weary,and the young will fall exhausted;
but those who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength,they shall mount up with wings like eagles,
they shall run and not be weary,they shall walk and not faint.
-Isaiah 40:25-31 NRSV
Meditation
Join a family member or friend for 10 minutes for prayer, either in person or by phone.
Prayers
Come, Emmanuel, come dwell with me.Hope of the world and Word of life:Come, Emmanuel, come dwell with me.
Going Out
Praise the Lord, O my soul:Praise God’s holy name.
Prayer form adapted from:1Daily prayer for all seasons. (2014). New York, N.Y.: Church Publishing.