In_the_Face_of_Christmas
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let us ask God for a good Christmas::
that no powerful nation
should tax the poor
or uproot them;
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that no unmarried mother
should be put away in disgrace;
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that no door will be shut
on those that need to find it open;
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that shepherds and sheep and all of nature
need not be afraid;
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that walls, barbed wire and angry soldiers
may not be found in Bethlehem;
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that wise men and wise women
might appear
in Iraq,
in Afghanistan,
in Africa,
in homeless hostels
in my town
that children may be preserved
from those who would abuse them;
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that this Christmas,
worship may become a manger
and that your home become a stable
and the rumour become a reality
that Christ has come among us.
Amen
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