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Truth of Christmas Is Not Lost

(For My Lovely Daughter, Emily)

Adam’s choice would be our own;

Dishonor God upon His throne,

Seek our way, our will, our pleasure,

Forfeiting our only treasure,

Exiled now from paradise,

There would be One Sacrifice.


God’s agony upon the cross

Made sure our hope is not the cost;

Beneath the global winter frost,

Truth of Christmas is not lost!

 

Now each new and hopeful breath

Overcoming vicious death,

Gather we to sing God’s praise,

Our voices raised to heaven blaze

Against our sin; but for our brother,

Love for Christ and one another!

 

God’s agony upon the cross

Made sure our hope is not the cost.

Beneath the global winter frost,

Truth of Christmas is not lost!

 

The horrors of this world can’t sway

Our joy ensured on Christmas Day!

Christmas will not die in man,

God willed it not to die; His plan,

To rescue all who hear Him say,

Peace on Earth this Christmas Day!

Copyright 2022.    L.L. Shelton.

Prayer For Bread

My Beloved Father in Heaven,

Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to make this plea in a public place for I hope that it will find a home in the hearts of others who want these same things for which I pray.

Please forgive me when I fail you and provide me the strength to be more nearly representative of you each day.

By your Grace, please allow that I am never made to stand against my fellow human being.   Yet if it must be, grant me the fortitude to bear it.

By your Grace, allow me rather in spite of all my human frailty to forgive, and yet in Truth to uphold your mercy and your justice knowing and accepting you to be the judge of souls and that your’s is the only legitimate judgement; giving me leave to enjoy others in both loving fellowship and loving witness and permitting me the discernment to realize the difference.

By your Grace, please allow my human American brothers within and outside of The Faith sight, that we may continue to imagine a pure vision free of the persecution of one another, and full of love for one another as human beings created in your image.

By your Grace, allow America to continue in true wisdom and to provide a secure home in which all have opportunity to worship you freely; a home for the weak, the downtrodden, and the oppressed- though it be of great cost to us, and do continue your blessing upon us and make a great human family of us in spite of our diversity and because of our commonalities.

By Your Grace, My Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.

2017, L.L. Shelton