A sheet of material with a number of slits cut in it symbolises a desert. It hangs in front of the communion table: and a desert created. After each voice a flower in slipped into the desert. At ed of service let others do the same.
Voice 1:
What Mary says about the coming of Jesus:
What God has done for me will never be forgotten,
the God whose very name is holy, set apart from all others.
His mercy flows in wave after wave
on those who are in awe before him.
He bared his arm and showed his strength,
scattered the bluffing braggarts.
He knocked tyrants off their high horses,
pulled victims out of the mud.
The starving poor sat down to a banquet;
the callous rich were left out in the cold.
He embraced his chosen child, Israel;
he remembered and piled on the mercies, piled them high.
Put flower in desert
Voice 5:
These are the impossibilities of the incarnation
the absurd hope we hope in anyway
as unlikely as a barren land bursting with flowers
may we now trust what was once impossible
now that God is coming among us
Voice 2:
What John’s Father says about the coming of Jesus:
Just as he promised long ago
through the preaching of his holy prophets:
Deliverance from our enemies
and every hateful hand;
Mercy to our fathers,
as he remembers to do what he said he'd do,
What he swore to our father Abraham—
a clean rescue from the enemy camp,
So we can worship him without a care in the world
made holy before him as long as we live.
Put flower in desert
Voice 5:
These are the impossibilities of the incarnation
the absurd hope we hope in anyway
as unlikely as a barren land bursting with flowers
may we now trust what was once impossible
now that God is coming among us
Voice 3:
What Jesus says about the coming of Jesus:
God's Spirit is on me;
he's chosen me to preach the Message of good news to
the poor,
Sent me to announce pardon to prisoners and
recovery of sight to the blind,
To set the burdened and battered free,
to announce, "This is God's year to act!"
Put flower in desert
Voice 5:
These are the impossibilities of the incarnation
the absurd hope we hope in anyway
as unlikely as a barren land bursting with flowers
may we now trust what was once impossible
now that God is coming among us
Voice 4:
What The Prophet says about the coming of Jesus:
Blind eyes will be opened,
deaf ears unstopped,
Lame men and women will leap like deer,
the voiceless break into song.
Springs of water will burst out in the wilderness,
streams flow in the desert.
Hot sands will become a cool oasis,
thirsty ground a splashing fountain.
Even lowly jackals will have water to drink,
and barren grasslands flourish richly.
Put flower in desert
Voice 5:
These are the impossibilities of the incarnation
the absurd hope we hope in anyway
as unlikely as a barren land bursting with flowers
may we now trust what was once impossible
now that God is coming among us
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