O God our loving Father, 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 wise men. May Christmas morning make us happy to be Thy children and Christmas evening bring us to our beds with grateful thoughts, forgiving and forgiven, for Jesus’ sake, amen.
—Robert Louis Stevenson
DALLAS WILLARD’S PARAPHRASE OF THE LORD’S PRAYER
Dear Father always near us, may your name be treasured and loved, may your rule be completed in us— may your will be done here on earth in...
