# Living Psalm 122 for Advent 1, November 30, 2025_ Davies
 
When they said to me:
let us go to the Lake
Where our faith was formed
I was elated.  Happy.  Nostalgic for care.

The way I got to know you, God, was built in a program
That doesn’t fit the way the people need You now.
I got all the basics, there.
 
Yet: I am still part of a community of faith.
Still part of that city, still part of the family.
And so I give thanks.
 
And I pray for the peace of the place, all the places:
Where caretaking was stewarded through people long before mine,
I pray for the peace of Knowing your Call,
And Knowing You. 
Beyond the program.
Beyond the place.
Beyond the service.
A relationship with You, first, Holy God.
 
I pray for the Call to Our Faith…
and the actions that Faith Proscribes…
For the sake of the coming of the kindom of God
On earth, as in Heaven…
I seek your Good.