Night Watch
Leddy Hammock
Inspired by lyrics by Peter Mayer:
Make of my heart a manger, Lord, to receive the newborn Christ Child.
Calm my fears, and give me peace, Lord, and steadfast, stable faith, that I may witness the birth of the Christ Child in everyday experience.
Give me a sign, Lord, as I keep the night watch, that the Christ Child is born in the midst of the simple life of prayer.
“In Bethlehem a manger waits, long ago and so today,” we pray that “Love will come and lay there.”
“So may the lamps of stables glow, brightly that their light may go, for miles in the darkness, so, Love will find its way there,” to be cradled in the human heart.