These Holiday times can be hard. We eagerly celebrate Your Son’s birth, knowing His love for us and His sacrifice, but so often the world sets expectations at these times too.
We too easily feel that the expectations of glitter and gifts or of happy families and gleeful children are what this holiday is about.
Help us to focus on You, Lord, and on how we can reach out and share the truth of Your Love And Jesus’ saving sacrifice with those who are wounded and aching in this season.
Help those who look around and only see the hard, the bad, the unmet expectations of their lives and times. Help them to know Your comfort. Help them to begin or continue this journey of following Christ.
May we celebrate His birth and joyfully expect His return together in this coming month, knowing that the plans You have for our future are better and more worth our focus than anything that came before.
Lord,
These Holiday times can be hard. We eagerly celebrate Your Son’s birth, knowing His love for us and His sacrifice, but so often the world sets expectations at these times too.
We too easily feel that the expectations of glitter and gifts or of happy families and gleeful children are what this holiday is about.
Help us to focus on You, Lord, and on how we can reach out and share the truth of Your Love And Jesus’ saving sacrifice with those who are wounded and aching in this season.
Help those who look around and only see the hard, the bad, the unmet expectations of their lives and times. Help them to know Your comfort. Help them to begin or continue this journey of following Christ.
May we celebrate His birth and joyfully expect His return together in this coming month, knowing that the plans You have for our future are better and more worth our focus than anything that came before.
In Jesus’ Holy Name, Amen
Amen and AMEN
Amen.