A prayer for the second Sunday of Advent

God.

I want to pray what Paul prayed:

God, would you let their love grow in knowledge and wisdom more and more and more.

Knowledge of how and where you are working. Knowledge of the slow but sure ways your work is evident across generations. Knowledge of the real needs of others, not merely the ways they inconvenience me.

Wisdom of how to measure words and actions. Wisdom to not force answers. Wisdom to wait.

Because, God, the more our love grows in knowledge and wisdom, the m...