Sacredise - Prayer: Silent Night

Silent Night

by John van de Laar

We praise you, Jesus,

because when you chose to come to us,

it was not with fanfare and bright lights,

with loud pronouncements and noisy celebrations;

Nor with dramatic entrances into our world's clashes

of ideologies and armies.

We praise you, Jesus,

because when you chose to come to us,

it was in the still breath-catching moment,

the quiet, pregnant weight,

of a silent, subversive, night.

Amen.

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