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New every morning is your love, great God of light, and all day long you are working for good in the world. Stir up in us desire to serve you, to live peacefully with our neighbors and all your creation, and to devote each day to your Son, our Savior Jesus Christ. Amen.

"A Liturgy for Morning Prayer," Upper Room Worshipbook

Used by permission from the Book of Common Worship, © 2018 Westminster John Knox Press. All rights reserved. This prayer appears in “A Liturgy for Morning Prayer” in Upper Room Worshipbook.

 

Today's Reflection

Though Christmas often focuses on the family and gifts, there dwells a constant theme that the Child of Bethlehem is for the whole world. The angels announce that the good news of great joy is “for all people” and the heavenly choir sings, “Glory to God in the highest heaven and on earth peace, good will among people” (Luke 2:10, 14). There is a global and life-changing, world-changing context to this Birth in Bethlehem.

—Larry J. Peacock, The Living Nativity: Preparing for Christmas with Saint Francis (Upper Room Books, 2018)

Today's Question

With whom can you share the good news of great joy?

Today's Scripture

But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid; for see—I am bringing you good news of great joy for all the people: to you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is the Messiah, the Lord.”
Luke 2:10-11 (NRSV)

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