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Brighten this holy night

Light of life,
giver of all good gifts,
through your unfolding story
our stories unfold.
In calling us to drink
when we are thirsty
you empower us for our task
to heal the nations.
Brighten this holy night
by your star,
that in the morning
we may meet you
risen again. Amen

Elizabeth Baxter

Thanks be to you
(prayers of thanksgiving)

May God be with you,
AND ALSO WITH YOU.
Lift up your hearts,
WE LIFT THEM UP TO GOD.
Let us love the Lord, our God, with all our heart and all our soul and all our might,
IT IS RIGHT TO GIVE OUR THANKS AND PRAISE.

Thanks be to you, God awesomely distant.
Thanks for the searing of shooting stars,
the colours of the planets in the night sky,
the space and power beyond our perceiving,
which sparkles the sky of our lives with your caring.

Thanks be to you God, uncomfortably close,
giving life to dead, dry things.
Both the dance of pure stillness
and the beat of our hearts are your doing.