Advent Prayer 12 (Day 326)

O God, by your hand we are preserved and by your mercy we know our faults, and how far we have to go. Yet your abundant grace, O Lord, empowers our every step forward. For it is only when we know that You have forgiven us continually that we can be truly grateful for all that we receive. 

Awed by the vast deeps of Your Love, who walked among us as Christ, we kneel before You and ask your blessing. May all we undertake be done to love others, as Jesus loves us, unrestrainedly, determinedly, unceasingly. 

Send your Spirit to envelop those whose needs we fasten our prayers of petition upon those we now name.

Amen.