Theme “Christmas”
Christmas will come
This first appeared in The Inquirer, Issue 8049
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Christmas will come.
When the nights are so long that even the day is dark,
and the world’s balloon is a fugitive from the sky,
when hope seeps out of our collective life like breath,
like the wind punched from a downed fighter,
Christmas will come.
Christmas
May God’s home be in the arms…
This originally appeared as the ‘Inquiring Words’ in The Inquirer, Issue 8049
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May God’s home be in the arms
of the homeless and the refugee,
may God’s ceremony be justice,
may God’s tribute be surrender.
May God’s righteousness be the poor, confirmed,
and may God’s river be the very stream
where she is taking
Christmas prayer
The birth of the Christmas child bears the message of hope that there can be joy and peace and goodwill. At Christmas time we can allow ourselves to believe in angels, and wise men and shepherds, and the whole night sky filled with the music of rejoicing. Let our religion be the religion of
Humanity still hopes at Christmas
This reading originally appeared in The Inquirer, Issue 8001, https://www.inquirer.org.uk/pages/
What is Christmas?
Candles herald the advent of the child of sorrows.
Twinkling lights challenge winter’s darkness and our own.
Green trees, red berries, tell of nature’s endurance.
Carols evoke praise and celebration and sweet nostalgia.
Old tales speak of magic and miracle and human redemption.
The sugared story of a teenager, pregnant out of wedlock,
of a family
Thanksgiving at Christmas
God of our hearts, who comes to us
in the wisdom of the ancients
and in the innocence of a new-born child,
we come to you in thanksgiving
on this Christmas Day.
We thank you for Jesus:
for the Way of love that he showed us,
and walked himself.
We thank you for the stories of his