The Night Watch (midnight)

Also called Vigils…”Like Jesus keeping watch the night before he died, I keep vigil with those who wait alone.”  This is a deep, even dark prayer of waiting and interceding…The Night Watch advocates for others in a dark night of the soul:

The suffering, abandoned, oppressed, lonely.

This pause is also powerful silent; a simple, quiet connection with Jesus…There is something powerful about your presence, your attention, the vigil you and Jesus are keeping.

As the deer pants for streams of water,

So my soul pants for you, O God.

My soul thirsts for God,

For the living God…

Deep calls to deep

In the roar of your waterfalls;

All your waves and breakers

Have swept over me.

By day the LORD directs his love,

At night his song is with me –

A prayer to the God of my life.

Psalm 42:1-2, 7-8