I Love the prayer i copied below, which brings us the tidings of a cleansed peaceful joy. This year has been both sad and joyful, and I am still trying to make sense of it all. To make sense of the death of those close to you is hard especially when trying to explain it to a child. it brings into question all our beliefs and forces us to look at the essence of our belief. All I can say is that prayer has helped and that fellow Christians have helped. Which is why it is so important for us to be in a community, you cannot go it alone.
Prayer for Christmas Morning
by Robert Louis Stevenson
The day of joy returns, Father in Heaven, and crowns another year with peace and good will.
Help us rightly to remember the birth of Jesus, that we may share in the song of the angels, the gladness of the shepherds, and the worship of the wise men.
Close the doors of hate and open the doors of love all over the world?
Let kindness come with every gift and good desires with every greeting.
Deliver us from evil, by the blessing that Christ brings, and teach us to be merry with clean hearts.
May the Christmas morning make us happy to be thy children,
And the Christmas evening bring us to our bed with grateful thoughts, forgiving and forgiven, for Jesus sake.
Amen
So this Christmas, for all of us who have suffered a loss and need kindness, reach out to kindred spirits and let the powerful cleansing and wholeness of Christmas heal you.
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