ADVENT  PRAYER 

          Watching and waiting 

                   for you, Lord Jesus,

          watching and waiting

                   for you in prayer.

          Jesus, you are the beginning

                   and the end of my everything. 

          You touch my life from A to Z.

          You are the Alpha and the Omega.

          You are the center around which

                   my life keeps spinning

                   from birth till death:

                   my Bethlehem to my Calvary.

          Watching and waiting

                   for you, Lord Jesus,

          watching and waiting

                   for you in prayer.

          Jesus, you stand there

                   on the shore of my life,

          calling me to drop everything,

                   and follow you.

          You are still the Story Teller,

                   telling me about the Kingdom.

          You are still the Healer,

                   ready to heal me

                   of bad memories and of my mistakes.

          You are still the Lover,

                   standing on the lake shore of my death,

                   ready to feed me,

                   ready to love me,

                   ready to bring me into eternity.

© Andy Costello, Prayers for Markings, December 1991