Dear Father,

Thank you for all your numerous blessings upon us, our families, our church and community.

Thank you that you have kept and preserved us from January till this very last month of December.

Thank you for the beauty of your creation which we see through the things around us and for your mercies that sustain us.

As we are in the season of advent, a time we remember the love that you shared with us by allowing Jesus, Emmanuel to be born to rescue us, help us to respond to your call with everything that we have.  Let us hold nothing back in response to your great love for us.  We look up to you in hope throughout this season to guide and guard us.

Amen