Collect, First Sunday of Christmas (Redub)

Creating God,


you wonderfully created us in your own image.


More wonderfully, you are transforming us,

in a way that follows the pattern of Jesus Christ.

You came to us, fully human, living with us in creation.

We pray that we may find your divine love,

even in the messiest places of our lives.

We pray too that your love would

bring relief, from the labour pains

that our whole world goes through,

in the struggle towards freedom.

Amen.

The Gunning Fog readability index suggests 7.33 years of formal education is required to understand this prayer on a first reading, the Common Worship prayer requires 29.32 years.

Here's the information on how this prayer is a redub.

First Sunday of Christmas Collection of 5 prayers is here.

You can also look at the full Index of Prayers.

The project runs from Advent 2012 to Advent 2013.

If you want to use the prayers, an acknowledgement of myself as author and, if there's space, the url to my blog would be much appreciated.