My spiritual director, Fr. Vic Baltazar, gave me a prayer about this before.
Now that it’s nearing Christmas, it would be good to pause and pray and come before the manger, and make your own Christmas List– a list of no-holds-barred desires of your own heart. What would your list look like? Make this list as you listen to this beautiful version by JMM Covers.
Grown Up Christmas List
Do you remember me?
I sat upon your knee
I wrote to you
With childhood fantasies
Well, I’m all grown-up now
And still need help somehow.
I’m not a child
But my heart still can dream
So here’s my lifelong wish
My grown-up Christmas list
Not for myself
But for a world in need
No more lives torn apart
That wars would never start,
And time would heal all hearts
And everyone would have a friend
And right would always win
And love would never end
This is my grown-up Christmas list
As children we believed
The grandest sight to see
Was something lovely
Wrapped beneath our tree
Well heaven surely knows
That packages and bows
Can never heal
A hurting human soul
No more lives torn apart
That wars would never start
And time would heal all hearts
And everyone would have a friend
And right would always win
And love would never end
This is my grown-up Christmas list
What is this illusion called the innocence of youth?
Maybe only in our blind belief can we ever find the truth
No more lives torn apart
That wars would never start
And time would heal all hearts
And everyone would have a friend
And right would always win
And love would never end, oh
This is my grown-up Christmas list
This is my only life long wish
This is my grown-up Christmas list
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