This Sunday at Peace

Scripture: Scripture: John 1:1-9, 14

a note from Holly

On this 10th day of Christmas, we hear the birth story in the Gospel of John; there is no holy family looking for shelter—instead we get this majestic creation that has come from the heart of God.

I have few prayers that I have written (and held on to)  through the years, but this comes back to me, somehow, at the start of each year.

My prayer, for all of us, as we take a deep breath and jump into this new year:

Sweet One

in the cold and dark

you come with warmth and light

what more could there be except this:

you call us to be warmth and light, too

to love with the same fiery passion that is your heart

and so we have come

on this frigid day

open, ready, committed, all in…

we look around and see the world into which you come:

some alone

some surrounded with love

some with too much

others not nearly enough

it’s complicated, the answers, the way forward

and it’s simple

it’s offering ourselves in love

to kindness

for all who grieve this day

and joy

for all who hold new life

and justice

to all who suffer from the systems, unjust, messed up

in it all, through it all, you call us to be for all…

as you, Immanuel, have come to be with us…

hear our prayer, then,  as we offer ourselves to one another

in the name of the new life born among us, Amen

Peace to you, my friends

Holly