A Prayer about Walking in the Way of Peace

Prince of Peace,

It hasn’t even been a month since Christmas, 

but have we already forgotten what we celebrated on Christmas Day?

You are the “mighty savior” raised up for us;

You have “looked favorably on [your] people and redeemed them….”

You have “saved [us] from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us” (Luke 1:68-71).

You have given light to those “who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death” (Luke 1:79).

You have come “to guide our feet into the way of peace” (Luke 1:79).

Prince of Peace, strengthen us today 

to walk in the very footsteps you walked, 

freed to love enemies, 

freed to offer peace, 

freed to sacrifice self-centeredness, 

because you have called us 

to execute your cosmic peacemaking plan. 

In the power of your peace-bringing name. Amen.

Read Luke 1:67-79.