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Isaiah 40:1-11
1. What is your image or vision of prophets and prophecy?
2. What was the most comforting news you ever received? Why was it so welcome?
3. In what ways have you experienced, recently or in the past, a 'reduction in your circumstance'? Did this feel like being in exile? Why or why not?
4. Mtr. Mary said that as a people of God we all live in exile, in a world that does not operate according to God's ways. How is this true for you?
5. Is there some aspect of your life in which you have become comfortable in exile? Have you perhaps become blinded to God's presence and how he might be calling you out of exile?
6. Have you experienced a time when you thought God's presence had left you? How might Isaiah's message - that God is always with you, even in your exile - change your understanding of that experience?
7. Isaiah uses the image of a shepherd gathering his lambs and gently leading them. What sort of sheep do you feel like: cradled? content? wandering? caught? lost? Why?
8. How can you 'prepare the way' in your life for Jesus?
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