A Call to Prayer
Let us remember tonight in our prayers:
* Those who do not have enough heat and are cold. Remember the ones with no money to pay those bills… the ones who find their rest on steam grates and exhaust vents. The ones who have to sleep in their car.
We, too, have been cold, and if we pray tonight from warmth, remember the one who was born with no place to lay his head but in a cold stable. There he was warmed by the golden glow of the Maker’s love.
* Let us remember tonight those who do not have enough to eat. The ones who do not have enough food, especially to spread a holiday feast to celebrate the Advent of that tiny baby. remember those held back from our help by distance or illness, or pride.
If we pray tonight from nourishment, remember the one who climbed Golgotha in our stead, with only vinegar on a rag to ease his parch.
* Let us remember tonight those who cannot dress through lack of clothes or infirmity. Remember the ones who cannot afford new/warm clothing. And those who are mis-sized now for whatever reason, and who cannot now replace their clothes.
Especially remember those who need clothing to get a job they have been so long missing. Knowing that, if we pray from our well-clothed, warm homes, their lives depend on nothing more than “a good suit of clothes.” Tonight, remember the one born in a manger, wrapped in swaddling.
* Pray tonight, dear friends, that on that great day of our rising, that we, too, will pass the Maker’s test:
- When I was hungry, did you feed me?
- When I was naked, did you clothe me?
- When I was a stranger, did you invite me in?
And so our prayers are now called. Approach the throne of Grace that, together, we may bring peace and the love of our maker to this place.
Amen. Truly say we all.
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