Christmas Day 3: A Christmas Prayer

Source of divine Light,

Emmanuel, God-with-us,

your Radiant Love

illuminated our waiting world

with the surprise

of your Bethlehem birth.

Each year since then

we celebrate this astonishing event,

rejoicing in your coming anew,

not as a newborn Babe,

but as the hidden Presence of divinity

contained within each of us.

To our great astonishment,

we have become your dwelling place.

We are now your Bethlehem.

Today: I rejoice in being a dwelling place of divinity.

Source: Out of the Ordinary, p. 45

This reflection from Anchors for the Soul: Daily Wisdom for Inspiration and Guidance by Joyce Rupp is reprinted with permission of the publisher, Ave Maria Press.
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