Here’s a
prayer of intercession for the world at Christmas from Reverend Roddy Hamilton.
Prayers of the People
for Christmas
When will
Christmas arrive in Afghanistan, O Saviour?
When will
Darfur live in peace?
Will
Palestinian and Israeli ever share justice?
When will
Washington and Westminster and Brussels
proclaim no
more hunger, no more war?
When will
governments turn their weapons to ploughshares
and
multinationals their profits to pruning hooks
When will
Christmas arrive?
So we pray
for the world
O newborn Saviour
this early
morning
in the wake
of your birth
when there
is still time to believe
that
because you are with us
the world
can change
So in our
‘Merry Christmas’s today
may we make
peace
in our
‘Seasons Greetings’
may we
share a welcome
in our
‘Joyeux Noel’
may we sow
seeds of justice
And may we
believe
not in some
magic
but in a
vision
that isn’t
a dream
but a way
of life
not for
someone else
but for us
this morning
now you are
born.
So be it
Amen
~ written
by Reverend Roddy Hamilton and posted on the Church of Scotland’s Starters for Sunday website. http://www.churchofscotland.org.uk/
