1st Sunday in Advent

Luke 21:25-36

How can we stand Lord?
We know of your awesome power
(love)
to create
----and bring to a close
all of this
----beyond our ability to conceive
----world.
How can we stand in this world
filled with all the powers of temptation
we can muster?
How can we stand and be ready
even when we see the signs?
(God gave)
In our world full of everyone is doing it
and that’s the way things are
(so loved)
we have so many one more things to do
here in this place.
(the world)
Even when I try to focus on you alone
(He gave his only Son)
I fail.
Even when I try to focus on you alone
I am unable to truly be who you call me to be.
(that whoever believes in Him)
When I look at the end coming
I am afraid
I will perish.
(will not perish)
and lose my
(but have eternal life)
life!