Pause for Prayer: TUESDAY 12/30

 

Could be just post-Christmas blues, 

    year-end drowsy doldrums 

        or here-comes-January jitters 

- but whatever it is - 

     it comes my way this time each year
         and leaves me sore in need, Lord, 

            of your blessings and your grace...

 

New Year's now is just ahead

    with resolutions still unmade,
while wise ones push their journey
    toward that westward leading star...

 

I need your grace to get me through,

    a star to lead me to your peace
and if you've got spare angels, Lord
    - send them my way -
to guard and guide me gently
    through these long and cold

        and lonely wintry days...

 

Give me a shepherd's faith, Lord, 

    to seek you out and find the place
        where you are born - right where I live  -
    where my ordinary-everyday 

        still longs to meet your Word made flesh 

            still living, here, among us...

 

The hopes and fears of all the years, 
    once met and healed in Bethlehem,

still crowd the deep and dreamless streets

    crisscrossing through my weary heart

        in search of everlasting light... 

 

Let no clouds shade your glory, Lord,
    when hark-the-herald-angels sing

        of peace on earth and mercy mild,

    of Jesus, born in David's town

        and in my soul:

            O come, Emmanuel...   

Lord, give me all the faith I need

    to trust you're born within me

to make my soul both calm and bright

    with radiant beams from your sweet face,

the dawn of your redeeming grace 

    to shine upon the year ahead

        and fill my heart with hope... 

Amen.

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