“And what I say to you I say to all: Keep awake.”
Mark 13: 37
Keep awake.
Your words are quite clear to me this week, Lord.
Keep awake.
Help me to find you this Advent season in the hearts of family and strangers and those difficult to love.
Enable me to experience your presence in the hectic pace of busyness and amid unexpected delays and interruptions.
Open my mind to learn your lessons and my heart to know their value.
Shake me from my complacency and cultivate a deeper compassion within me.
Stir me with your spirit to serve other unselfishly.
Rouse me from my slumber and remove the sleep from my eyes.
I want to stay awake, Lord but like the Peter, James and John, daily drowsiness draws my away from you.
The stupor of living half conscious numbs my reactions and dulls my vision.
I can’t make it on my own.
Wake me up Lord.
I want to live fully for you, with you, in you.
Stay awake. Yes, that’s what I want too, Jean. It’s so easy to tire out and lose our sense of alertness, but I want to notice where God is around me and so I must keep my vision sharp. Thanks for the encouragement!
Thanks Lisa for stopping by. Paying attention to and for God is a continual process for me. I let distractions take my eyes off him way too often and have been praying bout that lately. Have a wonderful Advent!!
Hi Jean,
Praying along with you…if we’re not drowsy, we’re distracted…so I’m with you 🙂
You are so right, Dolly, in fact I think I am often more distracted than drowsy. good point.
Hi Jean! We had the reading about the wise and foolish virgins…the need to stay awake. I don’t want to be caught napping. But how easy it is to backslide and do everything ‘just for ME’. Ugh. I always regret those action.
I want to live fully with the Lord too, may he bless me to overcome my greatest enemy. Myself.
Blessed Advent to you my friend,
Ceil
I don’t want to be caught napping either, Ceil but wow do my eye lids grow heavy at times. Isn’t it amazing how easy it is to get out of these good habits like spending time in prayer and hard it is to get back to them? That darn devil…..
Set the alarm, dear Lord! 🙂 Yes, may we all wake up to His presence. Blessings, Jean!
Thinking about the Lord setting the alarm, Martha made me realize how lately I am waking up before the alarm and spending time with him in prayers. Guess he is setting the alarm to wake me up. LOL