God,
We swarm through the malls and crowd the stores looking for a gift that fits the person and expresses our love. Thank you, God, for those loved ones; those whose love created Christmas past and those whose warmth makes Christmas present. Their love will sustain us long after the toys break and the clothes go out of style.
Forgive us, God, when we destroy the season's joy by turning shopping into aggravation, multiplying cost as a measure of love, scheduling activities that exhaust our energy and planning visits to offend the fewest.
Help us, God, to notice the many: those invisible except for coins tossed in answer to a bell or pledges in response to a call for charity, those whose loved ones exist only in memory, those who cannot give and seldom receive, those whose loneliness turns into depression and those whose joy trembles in pain.
Free us to sing the songs we love and release us to hug the people we love all in the name of the One who loves us, Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. AMEN
We swarm through the malls and crowd the stores looking for a gift that fits the person and expresses our love. Thank you, God, for those loved ones; those whose love created Christmas past and those whose warmth makes Christmas present. Their love will sustain us long after the toys break and the clothes go out of style.
Forgive us, God, when we destroy the season's joy by turning shopping into aggravation, multiplying cost as a measure of love, scheduling activities that exhaust our energy and planning visits to offend the fewest.
Help us, God, to notice the many: those invisible except for coins tossed in answer to a bell or pledges in response to a call for charity, those whose loved ones exist only in memory, those who cannot give and seldom receive, those whose loneliness turns into depression and those whose joy trembles in pain.
Free us to sing the songs we love and release us to hug the people we love all in the name of the One who loves us, Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. AMEN
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