Please pray with me,
God amid all that is happening
around us and within us, the streets of our minds and hearts and souls are as
crowded and chaotic as Bethlehem was centuries ago. God amid the Ceasars today who still issue
demands and decrees that hurt and dehumanize, we pray You will enter
still. We pray the words of, “O come, O
come Emmanuel (which means God with us)”. That You would enter our world and re-author
our stories in these days. When we
wonder, where is the spirit of Christmas; help us not force an artificial,
prepackaged version of what should be.
When we struggle with how to prepare and our own expectations, help us
sort through the straw of our barn-like lives.
When we feel like there is no room, remind us that You don’t ask for a
mansion, just a manger in our hearts. In
the ten days to come, help us be open, curious, awake, and alert to Your
presence that is everywhere we are. In
the ten days to come, let our souls feel their worth amid the ache. In the ten days to come, may we not be
searching for things to purchase, but the ways Your presence knocks softly on
the door of our life in the most delightfully unexpected ways. O come, O come Emmanuel, be with each of us
this day. Amen.
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