Sacred People, Saturday, December 13

This year’s Advent devotional uses a new format. In place of longer written pieces, each day offers a scripture, an image, and a short meditation. It’s simple, flexible, and easy to enter at any point in the season.

(this prayer may be used to receive and release

using the rhythm of your breathing)

Somewhere someone needs help.

Send love.

It matters.

If you can’t get there yourself,

then take a deep breath,

Breathe in the weight of their troubles.

Breath out and send all those burdens

into the Light

where sorrows can be held

with the most tender and infinite grace.

Breathe in what you can do.

Breathe out what you can’t change.

Spool out a thread of connection,

send courage and calm.

For the nights can be long

and filled with shadows,

and sometimes terrible

unexpected waters will rise.

Somewhere someone needs help.

Send love.

It matters.

Send Love, It Matters  by Carrie Newcomer

How do I see the sacred in other people this day?