Have a lighted candle as part of your Advent environment.
LEADER: What do I bring with me today that seems impossible to do?
ALL: What asks life and energy from me that I might not have to give? Reflect quietly.
LEADER: I invite us to pass this lighted candle to one another and, as we each in turn hold it, to name an impossibility we bring with us today, one we are willing to share with the group.
Group members pass the light.
LEADER: God, your eternal Word took flesh in the world when a girl named Mary, still a virgin, placed her life at the service of your vision for us all.
ALL: Help us hear in her call our own call to give life to the world. Amen.