Your Story is Our Only Hope

Sunday Psalm 12.1.24

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Father God 
Lord Jesus
Holy Spirit

We present ourselves before You again this Sunday.
We come now to the first week of Advent.
The first day of the liturgical calendar 
Meant to retell your story every year.

We begin again to declare this 
Story above all stories—

Your history that encompasses everything
And gives meaning to each life,
Enfolding the whole universe,
From the solar systems to the molecules
Of our mortal bodies.

Only in your story do we find hope.
Because You have offered us not 
Only this life with You, but the life
That is coming, in immortal bodies.

The moments we experience now
Of your work and presence
Feed our expectation that we will be
With You in new bodies, forever.

In this upside down world, it’s 
Hard to hope, to trust, to believe.
So much disappointment.
We need those moments with You
To rest our hope on.

We will never give up believing in You.
There’s always more story to live.
And what is yet to be, when the 
Story takes a turn for the best,
Will surpass our highest hopes. 
Amen.