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A collection of worship and meditation resources for the season of Christmastide - including Christmas Day, Holy Innocents' Day, Winter and New Year, Epiphany, Homelessness Sunday and Candlemas.
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CHRISTMAS DAY
AT HALF PAST THREE IN THE MORNING
On Christmas day at half past three in the morning I woke up and I saw light coming out of my window. I thought it was light, but it wasnât light, it was just a lamppost making shadows. So I started to open my presents, and when I was on the second one before the last my daddy came in and said: âPut the presents down and try and get back to sleep.â
Graham, aged 7
WHO IS WITHOUT, WHO IS WITHIN?
Cold dark nights, warm bright lights;
Christmas is the hardest and the kindest time.
Memories and expectations, confrontations, salutations!
Who is without, who is within?
A question still at Bethlehemâs inn.
What awaits the Christ child now
is in our power to decide,
as the world attends another Christmastide.
Liz Gregory-Smith
Written the year that Palestinian Christians and Muslims took refuge in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.
TABGHA
Jesus,
You had a birthday today.
A little boy stood,
and solemnly set alight
every stub of candle
that he could dig out of the sand tray
at the front of the church.
And growing in the stillness,
gloriously reflected
in your golden halo
and in his dark eyes,
there was light, dancing.
Ruth Burgess
Note: Tabgha is the location of a church near Lake Galilee.
IN YOUR ARMS I LIE
In your arms
I lie â
Full-filled,
stilled
Complete-replete,
dribbling milk.
Beryl Jeanne
PRAISE GOD
Praise God!
Praise God
for the joy and delight of children
and grandchildren.
Praise God
for the calmness after the storm
of shrieks and wrapping being shredded.
Praise God
for laughter,
for thank youâs,
for words of wonder and surprise.
Praise God
for Bethlehemâs birth,
for Calvaryâs suffering,
for Easterâs life.
Praise God!
Thom M Shuman
CHRISTMAS RESPONSES
A child is born
A child to save us
WE SHARE THE NEWS WITH GREAT JOY
A child is born
A child to challenge us
WE SHARE THE NEWS WITH GREAT JOY
A child is born
A child for the world
WE SHARE THE NEWS WITH GREAT JOY
Ruth Burgess
WE REMEMBER YOUR PROMISES
Here we are, Lord;
we are not many,
nor are we very wise
or powerful,
nor rich by the standards of the world,
but we do come
joyful and triumphant
on this special day,
because of what you have done.
On this day
we remember your promises
that you will never leave us
nor forsake us,
that you would show your love for us in a very special way,
that you would always let us know that you love us,
despite all our fears.
On this day
we joyfully remember you
creeping in very quietly
and very vulnerably
among us
in Jesus Christ, born of Mary
Born to be with us,
born to love us,
born to save us,
born to free us.
Please forgive us
for forgetting all this so often;
for thinking of you in human terms â
for imagining you to be a fearsome
far-off sort of God,
angry and vengeful;
or thinking of you as a petulant parent,
rewarding us with sweets when we are good
and smacking us when we are bad.
Forgive us for blaming you when things go wrong
and ignoring you when we think we are in control;
for being so busy and caught up in our own concerns
that we donât even take time
to stop and listen to yours.
Help us
to come to your birthplace
and to your birthday
Help us to let you enter our lives.
S...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Begin reading
- Title page
- Sources and Acknowledgements