Christmas Day

Christmas Prayer
You came as a baby,
Lord, as a little helpless child
who relied on a human family
to care for him.

You cried because you were hungry,
because you were homeless,
because you were a stranger
far away from home.

You still cry with hunger, Lord,
in the voices of the many starving;
your tears still flow: for the homeless,
the lonely and the forgotten;
you still rely on human families
to care for you.

And so this Christmas, Lord, we pray:
help us to be the kind of people
who look for you in the world,
and joyfully discover you
as we care for one another.

Carol Dixon