A Sacred Christmas At Home - Idea #2

Unusual winter weather is keeping us at home this year on Christmas Eve. This is a chance to worship in a different way, with your family, your neighbors, or by yourself. Try this, or another devotion. How did it go? Let us know in the comments at the end of this post!

Advent Candle Prayer

Preparation: Get five candles and put them on the table - four in a circle and one in the middle. If you don't have candles, get a piece of paper and write Peace, Hope, Joy, Love to form a circle, and the word Christ inside.

Invite someone to read this prayer: Jesus, During this time of advent, we have been waiting for you to be born in our lives and in the world. Tonight, we welcome you! Help us to feel your peace, your hope, your joy and your love in our hearts this day and every day of the year. Amen.

Light the first candle (or look a the first word). Invite each person to name a place or situation when they say: I pray for peace in.....

Light the second candle (or look at the second word). Invite each person to name a hope when they say say: In the year to come, I hope for......

Light the third candle (or look a the third word). Invite each person to say something that makes them feel joyful when they say: I feel joy when I look back on this year and remember.....

Light the fourth candle (or look at the fourth word). Invite each person to say the name of a person they love when they say: I am grateful to feel the love of.....

Light the Christ candle (or look at the middle word). Invite everyone to say together:
I pray that Christ will bring peace, hope, joy and love into my life and into the world.

Sing or listen to a recording of a quiet Christmas carol like Silent Night or Away in A Manger or What Child is This.