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God of hope, fill our hearts with an Advent hope. As we wait expectantly for the coming of your son, may our longing of Christ's glory shape us into a people of hope and expectation, joy, and trust in the glory that is yet to come. May we live in light of this desire for the fullness of the glory of your son. Amen.

Then Peter began to speak to [the Gentiles]: ‘I truly understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears [God] and does what is right is acceptable to [God]. You know the message [God] sent to the people of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ — he is Lord of all. - Acts 10:34-36 + Sign up to receive our social justice verse of the day via e-mail

It was the duty of the trumpeters and singers to make themselves heard in unison in praise and thanksgiving to the Lord, and when the song was raised, with trumpets and cymbals and other musical instruments, in praise to the Lord, "For [God] is good, for [God's] steadfast love endures for ever," the house, the house of the Lord, was filled with a cloud, - 2 Chronicles 5:13 + Sign up to receive our social justice verse of the day via e-mail

God, amid football, family, and too much food, we pause quickly and without inconvenience to remember and to thank. We thank you for our wealth and our safety, and are aware of how close to poverty we are and how under threat we live.  We gladly affirm that "All good gifts around us are sent from heaven above," but we yield to none in a sense of self-sufficiency, our weariness in needing to share, our resentfulness of those who take and do not give. Move through our half measure of thanks and let us be, all through this day, more risky in acknowledging that we have nothing except what you give. Amen. - Adapted from "At Thanksgiving," in Prayers for a Privileged People by Walter Brueggemann.

Because we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus, and will bring us with you into his presence. Yes, everything is for your sake, so that grace, as it extends to more and more people, may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God. - 2 Corinthians 4:14-15 + Sign up to receive our social justice verse of the day via e-mail

Lord, steady our feet when the world tries to rock and shake our faith. When materialsim beckons with coy hands, steay our feet. When lust sashays within us, steady our feet. When fear tugs at our knees, steady our faith. Show us your goodness, and steady our hearts in you. Amen. - From Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals

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"It is crucial too that we keep remembering that negotiations, peace talks, forgiveness, and reconciliation happen most frequently to between friends, not between those who life one another. They happen precisely because people are at loggerheads and detest one another as only enemies can. But enemies are potential allies, friends, colleagues, and collaborators." - Desmond Tutu  Desmond Tutu, No Future Without Forgiveness + Sign up to receive our quote of the day via e-mail