Wednesday, December 24, 2014

In the Face of Christmas




In the Face of Christmas

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 we will stop building walls
to keep people in and people out
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that wise men and wise women 
might appear in Wales, in Scotland, in Ireland, in England,
in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Syria and in our street;
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that children can be safe in schools around the world
that guns and weapons of war may not be seen as toys
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that children may be preserved
from those who would abuse them;
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that this Christmas,
you may become a manger
and your home a stable
and the rumour become a reality
that The Divine has come among us.
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And this we pray in Jesus’ name
AMEN





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