Dear God, I reread the words of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s ‘I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day‘. There are many of us for whom there no peace on earth, in our homes, on our jobs, in our communities… Give me strength, as I move past Christmas Day, to gain the same hope Longfellow found in […]
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A Christmas Day prayer: Dear Father, please, this day, give me the same wide-eyed wonder and excitement I had as a six year old boy in red flannel footie pajamas when I bounded down the stairs on Christmas morning. As a grandfather, I pray for the same sense of awe when I celebrate the virgin
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Dear LORD and my Father, please don’t get lost in all the hoopla which surrounds secular Christmas. Please help me and mine to hold dear Jesus’ miraculous birth above all else. May those we share the day with us see You in us and in what we do. Thank You for Jesus…both now and always.
O God, my Father…my Hope of Glory…healer of hurts…comforter of the broken hearted, last evening we lost one of our special friends, widow of an Episcopal priest. Funny lady, in love with life and You, LORD. In the blink of an eye she was in Your arms. Another great and Godly woman collapsed last evening
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Dear LORD, so many I hold dear will be traveling today and in few days to come for the Christmas holiday. Please guard those we love from danger. Bring them home safely, I pray in the strong and matchless of Jesus. Amen Verse for Today: “You’ll travel safely, you’ll neither tire nor trip…Because God will
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My heart of full of gratitude today. I am grateful today for life and health and for a loving wife. I am grateful for children and grandchildren for whom I pray by name today for protection and for their personal faith in You. Please build a hedge of protection about them to keep the Evil
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Good morning, LORD. It is so good to be alive today. Thank You for health and home. As we lit the Advent Candle yesterday, anticipating all the events leading to the birth of Jesus, I am driven to my knees in gratitude for You trusting Yourself to the arms of a peasant girl in Judea
O, my Father, my heart goes to those memories which have been closed by death during this season when we commemorate Your visible appearance to us all those years ago. As I recall names of those who have preceded us into eternity, thank you for ever being the Great I AM. Thank You for the
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…Soon it will be Christmas day…goes the song. Follow on to last week’s Nugget. How will you celebrate the day this year? Will it be just be business as usual? Lights up right after Thanksgiving, tree up early in December, drag out and dust off all the ornaments, shop til you drop for aunt Sue
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Dear LORD, my God and Father, as we draw closer to the day when we celebrate the once in history of Your coming to be living as one of us here, take my heart to the hillside with the shepherds who watched their sheep. Recreate in me the same sense of awe and wonder which
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