A Prayer for
Christmas Morning
Henry Van Dyke
The day of joy returns, Father in
Heaven,
and crowns another year with peace and good will.
Help us rightly to
remember the birth of Jesus,
that we may share in the song of the angels,
the gladness of the shepherds,
and the worship of the wisemen.
Close the doors of hate
and open the doors of love
all over the world…
Let kindness come with
every gift
and good desires with every greeting.
Deliver us from evil, by
the blessing that Christ brings,
and teach us to be merry with clean hearts.
May the Christmas morning
make us happy
to be thy children, and the Christmas evening
bring us to our bed with grateful thoughts,
forgiving and forgiven, for Jesus' sake.
Amen.
from A Treasury of Christmas Stories.
Henry Van Dyke
edited by James S. Bell, Jr.
Harold Shaw Publishers, 1993
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