A Christmas Prayer

Eternal God, with the flurry of activities surrounding our celebration of Christmas, may we be attentive the miracle of this day.  You allowed your Son to be born of a virgin and to enter our space and time as one of us.  We thank you that He identified with us and our condition.  We thank you for His understanding of our weaknesses, hurts, and pain.  May we have the time to pause and appreciate the wonderful work you did in sending Jesus.  May his peace come to us as we celebrate at this festive time.  In Jesus' name.  Amen.

Holy Week Prayer

Eternal God, help me to capture the meaning of this week for myself.  Help me to see what it meant for Jesus to eat the Passover Meal with his disciples and capture the force of the new meaning that Jesus gave to the bread and wine.  Help me to capture the sacrifice Jesus made in dying on the cross on that Friday.  Help me to capture the wonderful news of the resurrection of Jesus as the women and his disciples saw that he was alive.  May this truly be a special week as I reflect on this week in my Lord's life.  Amen.