Christmas Prayer
Loving God, the Winter Solstice indicates a growing shadow that many of us find mirrored in our own lives and in the world around us. We long for the birth of the Messiah, once again, in our world, in our hearts.
We are grateful today for Mary and Joseph, courageous parents who helped raise Jesus to be the embodiment of hope for the world.
We thank you for Jesus the child, God-With-Us in a way the world did not expect, shattering equations of authority with power and force.
We pray for the eyes of hearts to be opened so that we might see the birth of the Messiah now, come again in the way we need now. We have learned that you send your love to us in the places we would rather not look, so help us spend a little time on the margins of our lives so that we might be among the first to welcome our expected Savior in this new appearing.
In the name of this mysterious, surprising and entirely familiar Christ we pray,
Amen
