Lord, we come to you after having eaten too much, making too merry and relishing too much joy that one person should experience on this Christmas, 2019, and we thank you. God, thank you for the day, the families, the celebration, the merriment and the deep satisfaction of being part of a community and a Nation that is going in the right direction.
Lord, be with our families as they depart to their destinations here and abroad. Lord bless our US Armed Forces that are standing the wall of freedom and we pray that they are having a Merry Christmas abroad.
Lord lead us to a new level of awareness in your word, in the discipline that bestows blessings, in the commitment to principle that provides abundance. Lord lead us to truth. Let us wield the truth to set ourselves free from the darkness that rules this realm.
God, as we venture back out into the World, help us to don the armor of your words so that when we do battle, we do so with the integrity of justice in your word and not our righteous anger. Lord fill us with your Holy Spirit so that we might fill others through acts of kindness and service as we turn from the petty ways of the world.
All these things we ask in your name through Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God. Amen