Here is a prayer for Christmas Eve from
Dr. Susan M. (Elli) Elliott. It is just a small excerpt of a longer prayer
meditation (see link below
for the entire prayer). It was posted on her website, Sermons and Prayers.
Prayer for
Christmas Eve
We
come to your manger, each of us, in the stillness of this night,
Here we know our profound powerlessness,
and here you are –
a fragile powerless newborn,
yet
the newborn child in whom we recognize the ruler of the universe.
We
hear your newborn cry, the cry we have been waiting for –
"Make room! Make room for
me!"
Fragile
God, born in the night –
Meet us here at your manger.
Meet us as a newborn child meets new
parents,
come to change our lives forever.
Meet us as the newborn
who insists that we make room for you,
who requires that we reorder our lives to
pay attention to you,
who demands that we be re-centered on the
very center of life.
Fragile
God, born in the night –
You come as a tiny light in a vast darkness
yet that fragile and flickering light
changes the darkness completely.
Fragile
God,
meet us here in the lighting of our small
lights,
that we may know your awesome power making
room among us
as the light that shines in the darkness,
the fragile light that the darkness cannot
overpower.
Fragile
God, there is room in our inn.
Be born in our night.
Amen.
~
written by Dr. Susan M. (Elli) Elliott December 24, 2004, 2005. If you use this
material, please credit Dr. Susan M. (Elli) Elliott. Source: http://ellielliott.webs.com/sermonsprayers.htm
