Dear Lord
I want to thank you for all the lovely Mumsnetters and for all their love and support. It would be easy for me to sit here in hospital feeling lonely, feeling like Christmas is passing me by and wondering where you are in suffering. But instead you give me a glimpse of your love through the actions and words of others, and somehow it all changes, perspective is altered, and I find the meaning of Christmas hitting me for six once again.
I want to thank you for getting down and dirty among us. For being in the mess. The incarnation is the most awesomely mind-blowing event in history. Sometimes it takes being outside things to see the reality of it all. I'm not grateful for illness but grateful that you know and are with me in it. I'm thankful that you know, because you took it all on yourself.
And I want to pray that all these dear MNers can experience you with them this Christmas. That in all of their pain and sorrow, all their suffering, all their busyness, all their happiness, they will find that glimmer of hope that changes and that they will know once again that you just love them. That all the questions, all the fear and the doubt will be swallowed up in the great event of that birth in the stable, and the way you came among us in weakness and poverty.
I pray for peace for all MNers today, in whatever they are facing.
IN Jesus name
Amen.
