Thank You Lord, for this beloved and familiar season:
For tuneful carols,
For reunions with families and
friends,,
For giving and receiving,
For a sense of celebration
everywhere,
For all the ways of saying
‘Christ is born.’
We ask that the familiarity of
Christmas may not smother the truth that
we celebrate together.
May Christ be among us, as
real, as close, as warm as that first Christmas in Bethlehem:
With Mary, may we open our hearts
to the word of God, that Christ may be born in us;
With the shepherds, may we
hear in the world of our daily work what heaven is saying to us;
May our experience of Christ
be as real and enduring as theirs.
Save us from a faith so
shallow that we put away our Christian commitment with the decorations or
discard it like an unwanted present.
Father, in Christ you embrace
our happiness and our need: give to us a love that shall exclude no one.
Thank you for such a beautiful, wonderful and uplifting prayer.
ReplyDeleteGod bless always.