I will be taking the next couple of weeks off to enjoy the holiday. In the interim, I leave you this prayer for the Christmas season and my prayers that you and yours remain safe and healthy during these days of our pandemic winter. And I will be back in the Epiphany season.
Beloved One, in these nights and days we remember that you took on what we are. You laughed, cried, and sneezed. You woke with stiff necks, aching backs, and blurry eyes. You knew what it meant to live within time, and the anxiety tomorrow can bring. So, in these nights and days we come to you with our joy, sadness, worries, and fears for the days ahead. We carry to you the weight of the year that has passed. And we lay it there, beside the trough where you once lay and in which you have left us a feast—your presence. Feed us in these nights and days so we might be full enough to feed others with your peace, your mercy, your justice, and your love. We ask this for the sake of this broken and beautiful world we love. We ask so that the lonesome, the sick, the grieving, the dying might know that we are not alone. We ask for the glory of the Three in One. Amen.