Here’s a prayer of petition for late Advent or Christmas from
Bruce Prewer.
A Lost Christmas?
God! They have taken away Christmas
and we do not know where they have laid it!
They have replaced the Gift with an orgy of
getting,
displaced Advent expectation with a pantomime of
parties,
captured carols by candlelight and fed it to
trivial television,
and drowned the Wonder in a swamp of alcohol.
We arrive at Christ’s birthday distracted,
distended, disinterested.
Lord, Emmanuel,
please lead us again to the place where Christ
is born,
that we may come and worship him with the
delight of primitive adoration.
Let this be, dear Lord.
Let this be!
Amen!
~ written by Bruce Prewer, and posted on Bruce Prewer’s Homepage http://www.bruceprewer.com/
