A Christmas Prayer
Gracious Lord of creation, birth your new creation in us this Christmas.
With the coming of the Christ child, we pray that we would receive all that he is, so we can be all you have created us to be.
We ask you to make us co-creators with you in this world you so desperately love.
Holy Lord of Light, shine your light into dark corners this Christmas.
We know that you, Christ, are the light of life, but even your own don't always recognize you.
Remind us that the darkness cannot overtake your light and help us to bear your light in this world you so desperately love.
Loving God, giver of all good gifts, help us to be givers of good gifts this Christmas.
Grant by your Spirit, that we would be so filled with love that love would be what we present to all we meet. Yes, to all, we meet.
We need the good gift of your grace to live in love in this world you so desperately love.
Justice-loving God, give us your heart to put what is wrong right.
With you, we want to stand alongside those who have been too long pushed down, set aside, and held under.
Provide us with courage to be like the Prince of peace in this world you so desperately love.
Emmanuel, God with us, help us to sense your very nearness this Christmas.
In our loss and our grief, in our joy and our celebration, in our fear and our anxiety, in all things make yourself known to us, we pray.
Give us eyes to see that we, too, are seen in this world you so desperately love.
Amen.
Merry Christmas!
Pastor Olivia
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