The Adventure is Beginning: Readings, prayers, poems and actions for Advent and Christmas

Description

Daily readings, with prayers, poems and actions, for Advent and Christmas from members, associates and friends of the Iona Community.

Contributors include Ruth Harvey, Brian Woodcock, Katharine M Preston, Tim Gorringe, Jan Sutch Pickard, Thom M Shuman, Martin Wroe, Iain and Isabel Whyte, Susan Miller, Alex Clare-Young, Nancy Cocks, Peter Millar, Janet Lees, Emma Major, Ruth Burgess and others.

Prayer

Give us the courage to follow your light
along the road of compassion, of peace, of community,
so that we can become the people you created us to be.
God says: ‘Here I am – knocking on your door.’
The door opens – the New Year is ahead –
the adventure is beginning.

(Isabel Whyte)