{"id":23921,"date":"2026-03-11T15:23:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T15:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/uncategorized\/advent-prayers-in-my-pocket\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T06:17:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:17:14","slug":"advent-prayers-in-my-pocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/prayer\/holiday-prayers\/advent-prayers-in-my-pocket\/","title":{"rendered":"Advent Prayers in My Pocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My cell phone buzzed first thing this morning with a message. \u201cWho\u2019s texting me now?\u201d I wondered. Turned out it was God. Or at least one of God\u2019s minions.<\/p>\n<p>There on the screen was a prayer: <em>Give us, who are called by your holy Word, grace to follow him without delay, and to bring those near to us into his gracious presence.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-41351\" alt=\"Alex Nelson, Anne Marie Roderick and Tim Hamlin, the Christmas counter-culturists.\" src=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/blog_adventprayer_350.jpg\" style=\"width: 350px;height: 263px;margin-left: 15px;margin-right: 15px;float: right\" \/>I should explain. I don\u2019t give my cell phone number out to anybody, just family and friends.<\/p>\n<p>When I get a call or a text it\u2019s from somebody I know and if it\u2019s an unknown number, I don\u2019t answer it. He or she can leave a message. (Okay, once it was Elizabeth Dole and I immediately called her back, apologetically.)<\/p>\n<p>But here it was a prayer on my screen. Then I remembered. This was something I signed up for. An Advent message for every day of the Advent season.<\/p>\n<p>Advent often gets buried in the loud, raucous, green-and-red-lights, tinsel-on-everything, commercial scream of \u201cShop Till You Drop\u201d days before Christmas. It\u2019s about waiting, and every inherent \u201cBuy It Now!\u201d message of the season argues against celebrating Advent.<\/p>\n<p>Where is the sign that says, \u201cOpen your heart, make room, your Savior\u2019s coming?\u201d And not just for the first time but for the second time and time immemorial, God\u2019s time of peace and justice forever.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why I was grateful to a group of young adults at church\u2013yes, one of them is my younger son, Tim\u2013who came up with this idea. Advent warriors, the ultimate counter-culturists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Young Adults of St. Michael\u2019s are offering a daily digital Advent calendar,\u201d said the announcement in the bulletin. \u201cSign up to receive a short, contemplative text message during Advent by texting ADVENTTIDE to 313131 or emailing your name and cell phone number to <a href=\"mailto:st.michaels.ya.advent.2014@gmail.com\">st.michaels.ya.advent.2014@gmail.com<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Try it. You\u2019ll like it. Nobody\u2019s trying to sell you anything. And it only lasts 25 days\u202622 days by now. I can assure you these Christmas counter-culturists are the best sort of elves. One of them spends most of his weekends among the pots and pans of the Saturday soup kitchen. <\/p>\n<p>Waiting doesn\u2019t come easy to me. I like things to happen right now. But waiting in prayer is just right, waiting with God and working with God as He creates his wonders.<\/p>\n<p>I like being reminded of that at 8:30 in the morning when the phone buzzes with a prayer in my pocket. Like I said, I only give out my cell number to friends and family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My cell phone buzzed first thing this morning with a message. \u201cWho\u2019s texting me now?\u201d I wondered. Turned out it was God. Or at least one of God\u2019s minions. 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