Merry X'mas!

Beauty for brokenness
Hope for despair
Lord, in your suffering world
This is our prayer
Bread for the children
Justice, joy, peace
sunrise to sunset
Your kingdom increase!

Shelter for fragile lives
Cures for their ills
Work for the craftsman
Trade for their skills
Land for the dispossessed
Rights for the weak
Voices to plead the cause
Of those who can't speak

God of the poor
Friend of the weak
give us compassion, we pray
Melt our cold hearts
Let tears fall like rain
Come change our love
From a spark to a flame

Refuge from cruel wars
Havens from fear
Cities for sanctuary
Freedoms to share
Peace to the killing-fields
scorched earth to green
Christ for the bitterness
His cross for the pain

Rest for the ravaged earth
Oceans and streams
Plundered and poisoned
Our future, our dreams
Lord, end our madness
carelessness, greed
Make us content with
the things that we need

Lighten our darkness
Breathe on this flame
Until your justice burns
brightly again
Until the nations
Learn of your ways
Seek your salvation
And bring you their praise!

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i'm grateful for having a blessed christmas!
help me to share my blessings to the people who are not so fortunate as me
lay your precious hands onto them so that the love of God flows within them
in this season of joy, hope and love...

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