INTO THE PRESENCE OF GOD Trust in God at all times, people. Pour out your hearts to the Holy One. For God alone my soul waits in silence. Silence God with us. Emmanuel. We pause and consider. Me created in the image and likeness of God. Jesus created in the image and likeness of human beings. “Look, your Mary is pregnant with Emmanuel: God is with us,” Joseph dreamed. “How can this be?” struggled Mary. “But here I am; let it be as you say.” “It is no longer we who live but it is Christ who lives in us,” Paul explains. “How can this be?” we wonder. “Can Christ be formed in us?” Well, here we are. Emmanuel. Let it be as you say... be formed in us, be present to us. Sing
Let all mortal flesh keep silence and with fear and trembling stand Ponder nothing earthly minded, for with blessing in his hand Christ our God to earth descended, our full homage to demand
THANKSGIVING AND LAMENT Holy One, Human One, We admire your downward mobility and forget to follow it. Help us forgive ourselves.
8