Each year during the days between Christmas and New Year’s, I like to publish the ten posts from the previous year that more of you read and shared with others. This gives me a break during the holidays and gives you a chance to catch up with something that you might have missed. Or you might remember a certain post and want to share it with others now. Or you may just want to see what others are reading.
No matter what you do with them, I have only hoped that my words and thoughts have stimulated you to think–and maybe even create yourself.
Please feel free to comment on these posts as well. Your comments are always welcome and always stimulating.
Here is my prayer for you which I found here and have reworded a bit to make it appropriate for us:
Come, long-expected Jesus. Excite in us a wonder at the wisdom and power of Your Father and ours. Receive our prayer as part of our service of the Lord who enlists us in God’s own work for justice.
Come, long-expected Jesus. Excite in us a hunger for peace: peace in the world, peace in our homes, peace in ourselves.
Come, long-expected Jesus. Excite in us a joy responsive to the Father’s joy. We seek His will so we can serve with gladness, singing and love.
Come, long-expected Jesus. Excite in us the joy and love and peace it is right to bring to the manger of our Lord. Raise in us, too, sober reverence for the God who acted there, hearty gratitude for the life begun there, and spirited resolution to serve the Father and Son.
We pray in the name of Jesus Christ, whose advent we hail. Amen
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