Food for Faith for Advent 2022

Each day of Advent, I will offer a brief email reflection to guide us through these days of grace.

Every day there will be a short written reflection as well as our daily Lectio Divina podcast and weekly Homily Studio podcast

Prayer is an engagement with God who meets us in our reality, and my hope is that these email prompts will encourage you to a deeper personal encounter with Jesus Christ who dwells among us in our present reality.

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I am grateful for your support and encouragement and I look forward to making this Advent journey with you.

In Christ
John

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I AM

I AM

I try not to repeat these daily Lenten posts year to year but there are times when the same scriptures pop up annually and I realise that I can’t write it better than I did last year. Today is one such day, not only because of the thought I share but even more in the comments that are added by FFF readers. Today I have left some of last year’s comments helping us to appreciate the power of today’s readings.

my word your home

my word your home

The heart of the home in years past was the hearth.
It was at the hearth that the family gathered for the warmth and light of the flame and the food that was prepared there.
The fire was treated with respect since the same flame which provided energy for the home could just as easily destroy it.

stand up look up

stand up look up

The Israelites in their forty years in the desert were journeying from captivity to freedom, but the struggle of their desert years made them vulnerable to attack from every temptation as today’s first reading continues

confident in God

confident in God

I’m not sure if children today are told the great story of the Emperor’s New Clothes, but if not let’s make sure that the parable is taught at all schools of higher learning.

the teenagers

the teenagers

A few years ago I discovered the wonderful way that God uses my imagination in my prayer.
Such openness to imagination when seeking God does not take us away from reality into fantasy but instead brings me into what is most real and inescapably personal and intimate.