Christmas Prayer and Blessing 2020

 

Christmas Prayer and Blessing 2020

"O' God, our help in ages past, our hope for years to come."

As we embrace the dawning of the new year 2021 and the twilight of the present year 2020, we thank you God with a spirit of gratitude, not because we have not come this far without wounds, without brokenness, without unfathomable losses, and without infinite uncertainties, but because of your loving kindness and grace that has sustained us through dark nights, turbulent seas, bitter winters, and vociferous winds.

As we reflect upon our spiritual summons during this time of year commemorating the birth of Christ,

May our hope, our purpose, and our vision, be renewed and refreshed as we touch the lives of others with love and glad tidings of peace.

May our joy and our hope come alive again and become unquenchable as we inspire each other.

May we be gifted by the wonder, the majesty, and the bliss of excited expectation of new dreams and possibilities.

May our faith be reignited and set aflame by the breath of God.

May we be courageous enough to embrace the strength of our weakness, and humble enough to embrace the weakness of our strength.

May we be encouraged that God has never stopped watching over us and that each of us are on the heart and the mind of God.

May we continue to risk loving so deeply that we set the world aflame with infectious love, abiding compassion, overflowing joy, bountiful benevolence, and tidings of peace.

May such love help us to soar to new heights, greater depths, and infinite possibilities.

May we move forward in connecting with other’s hearts without reticence, fear, nor restraint.

May the flame of our hearts radiate brighter and brighter as one flame yields birth to another and another.

May we be renewed moment by moment and reaffirmed that we are loved, beautiful, gifted, resilient, and powerful.

May such an awareness catapult us to greater heights of inspiration, imagination, creativity, and possibilities.

May our wounds heal us, renew us, and birth us like the Phoenix that is birthed by the fire that consumes it.

May we remain committed to the journey of faith and the path of discovery as we give ourselves to inspire and be inspired, to touch and be touched and walk with those who look and hope for love, light, hope, and peace.

May our Christmas overflow with the presence of love, joy, hope, and peace.

May the New Year overflow with renewed blessings of hope, grace, rest, peace, goodness, and prosperity.

All these things we pray and ask.

Amen

 

Reverend Kevin A. Mason © 2020

Be Blessed

K. Mason

© 2020
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GOD'S SPIRIT IS MOVING

"And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. 

And The Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." 

Genesis 1:2

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(c) 2017
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Immortal Invisible

Immortal Invisible

Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the in habitants of the land into the house of the Lord your God, and cry unto the Lord

Joel 1:14

Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the Lord will do great things. Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength. Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God.

Joel 2:21-23a

That which lives forever is immortal and that which we cannot see is invisible like the air that we breathe.

In our present time we are beset by an array of challenges that summon both our time and our attention. While life often presents us with the challenge to resolve urgent presenting issues immediately, we become simultaneously inundated or even avalanched by a cascade of more pressing issues subsequent to the issue that we are in the midst of remedying. We ponder and muse to ourselves that we are at the brink of breaking-point; i.e., the point of no return. Sometimes it appears that we are gasping for air, yet feel suffocated by the circumstances that beset us with little to no relief on the horizon. Sometimes those moments that we must gasp for air are further intensified and evident when our marriages fail, when our children go astray, when we are betrayed by those whom we trust, when our friends take a hiatus during the times we need them most, when years of dedicated service result in months of unemployment, when we lose our homes, when our finances are depleted, when sickness brings life as we  once celebrated it to a halt, when the shadow of death claims the lives of those whom we love, when parents place their children on psychological probation, when the good that we exemplify is spoken of as evil, when shame and slander are the news of the day, when doors of opportunity are slammed shut, when our brothers and sisters find shelter on the streets, when food is discarded in large quantities daily, yet far too families are left to starve while they bear witness to their children who fall prey to the disease of malnutrition, when we as members of this great nation, resort to internal fighting and conflict due to our own fears, biases, idiosyncrasies, and insecurities, while forgetting those things that unify us as one in the bond of love of Jesus Christ, our Savior and Redeemer. It appears that we have forgotten the unity that bonded us when our fathers, mothers, brother, sisters, and other beloved had returned home from world wars and civil wars as well as those times when collective medical efforts conquered disease. It seems that we have forgotten the sacrifices of those who paved the way before us who traversed rocky precipices in hues of Black, Red, White, Yellow, and Brown. It seems that we have forgotten those types of adversities that have changed our lives as we once knew it such as the horror of 911 and the catastrophe of Hurricane Katrina all of which caused us to reckon with the reality that we are all in this thing called “life” together. What does this apathy that we, at present, experience mean we ponder? How did we veer off-track we muse? Is all lost? Is there anything reconcilable we ask ourselves even as we pray with heavy hearts and troubled minds? What does God require of us in such challenging times? What must we require of one another?

The Prophet, Joel, considered a minor prophet, yet with a major proclamation, petitions and reminds us that HOPE in God is still very much alive and that we must reconcile ourselves to God through our faith in Jesus Christ, whom redeems us. Joel reminds us that we must assemble and humble ourselves before God and petition his grace and mercy with the aid of our elders in a posture of submission coupled with the relinquishment of our self-righteousness and pompousness. When we place ourselves before the presence of God our Holy Father at the base of the Mercy Seat in an authentic and self-revelatory manner, fear, shame, doubt, desolation, brokenness, exclusion, and apathy can no longer lay claim to our destiny, our faith, and our royal priesthood because God our Father, who is the Ancient of Days is still on the throne! Because God is sovereign, trees will bear fruit, fountains will flow with living water, pastures will become green, and we as the sheep of his pasture will be enveloped in the presence of the Immortal Invisible, yet Omnipresent, Omnipotent, Omniscient Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Be Blessed,
K. Mason
(c) 2012

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