Pause for Prayer: SATURDAY 12/5

Your very name, Lord, Emmanuel, 

means God-with-us 

so we pray, Emmanuel,

come and be God-with-us this Advent...

Be with us, Lord, in this pandemic,

with the wisdom we need

to keep ourselves and our neighbors safe

as statistics climb the daily charts...

 

Be with us, Lord, in our nation's efforts

to come to unity, to bipartisan integrity,

to a truce based on truth

and rooted in facts...

 

Be with us, Lord, in our prayer:

help us make room in our hearts

for your love to be born, to grow

and to flourish this Christmastide 

and through the year ahead...

 

Be with us, Lord, in our secret fears,

in the depths of our souls,

in the places we find ourselves most alone,

captive, exiled, forgotten:

be with us, Lord, Emmanuel,

be with us, Lord, we pray...

Emmanuel: God With Us by Amy Grant

 

 

We dim the light
We stoke the fire
We breathe the evergreen
Young ones wait

While the old ones make up
Tales of how it used to be

 
China dolls
Candy corn

Painted wooden toys
Treasures found
To the wondrous sound
Of caroling the Savior

Born to us on Christmas morn

 
Emmanuel, God with us
Emmanuel
Emmanuel, God with us

The son of Israel

 
And still he calls
Through the night
Beyond the days of old

A voice of peace
To the weary ones
Who struggle with the human soul

 
All of us

Travelers
Through a given time
Who can know
What tomorrow holds?

But over the horizon
Surely you and I will find

 

Emmanuel, God with us
Emmanuel
Emmanuel, God with us

The son of Israel

 
And the years they come
And the years they go
Though we may forget somehow

That the child once born in Bethlehem
Is still among us now

 
(Emmanuel, God with us
The son of Israel)

 

Emmanuel, God with us (Emmanuel)
Emmanuel
Emmanuel, God with us

The son of Israel

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