A Day to be Generous

It would be a shame

in all the Christmas concerns

to let these precious days of grace go by,

to let them pass unheeded,

without thinking of all those people

less fortunate than ourselves.

Help us today, Lord, to see YOU

in the faces of the poor,

to respond generously to those in need,

to show goodness to others

in thought and word and deed.

And then to celebrate with joy.

The wondrous day of Your Birth.

Amen