LORD of the nations … LORD of the world … to whom all creatures belong, great and small …
We thank you …
For the gift of life … it’s good to be here … to be alive … to love and be loved … to receive and to give …
For the gift of Jesus …
For the fellowship of faith …
For Covenant on the Corner …
For Mary and Joseph, for the Inn Keeper and the Shepherds … for this remarkable story …
O God of heaven and earth, we find ourselves in this story … something important, something utterly good … something eternal and forever … your love for us, and the hope that our love for one another could transcend the boundaries of hatred and fear … that your love for us could change us so that we can change the world …
On this 7th day of December, we remember a moment in time when nation attacked nation … when the demons of war had their way with the world … we’re mindful of all the suffering that day unleashed … and the countless millions who paid the highest price … we remember them today, and continue to pray for those who made it through, only to carry with them deep sorrow and hard memories …
We pray for peace, O God … that women and men around the world will join together for the sake of humanity … to preserve this creation of yours – to be our brother’s keeper – to watch over one another, to lift up one another … to be large-hearted and broad-minded – to see with the eyes of Christ … to see the world from the perspective of the cross … to give ourselves all the more for the sake of Christ and the healing of the nations …
Bless us, we pray, in this season … with conscience … the blessing of a mission, the blessing of a purpose, to take us beyond ourselves …
Bless Covenant, O God, with such purpose … with a vision high and grand … a vision of your world … as it should be, as it will be … and to devote ourselves all the more to following Jesus our LORD, embracing his love and work …
In the name of our LORD Jesus Christ, who taught us to pray, saying, Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name …
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