WEEK 3: PREPARING FOR THE HOLIDAYS
Welcome to Week 2 in our Preparing for the Holidays series. If you’d like to read the introduction to the series, read Start Here: Preparing for the Holidays. Click here for Week 1 and Week 2.
Each week we’ll focus on two actions to center as we pray. Throughout this series, we’ll also focus on a passage from Colossians 3:12-17. You can read it in full at the end of the post.
Interruption + Delight
Pray a simple prayer:
“Lord, interrupt me. and grant me the patience to be interrupted.”
As we enter into a season of hosting, traveling, making or purchasing presents and more, may we stay sensitive to the Spirit’s promptings which may come at “inconvenient” times and through inconvenient situations or people. May we experience the delight of divine interruptions.
Here are some questions to consider:
In what situations am I most vulnerable to resent being interrupted?
What can I do to help keep me aware of the Holy Spirit’s promptings? Is there a habit or practice I can begin for the holiday season to help me become more aware?
Consider and name the most common distractions in your life.
Read below or listen to this passage and meditate on it.
“Therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and dearly loved, put on compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, bearing with one another and forgiving one another if anyone has a grievance against another. Just as the Lord has forgiven you, so you are also to forgive. Above all, put on love, which is the perfect bond of unity. And let the peace of Christ, to which you were also called in one body, rule your hearts. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell richly among you, in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another through psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts. And whatever you do, in word or in deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.”
