Journey to christmas: Christmas Eve

   "Give us, O God, the vision which can see Your love in the world in spite of human failure.
   Give us the faith to trust Your goodness in spite of our ignorance and weakness.
   Give us the knowledge that we may continue to pray with understanding hearts.
   And show us what each one of us can do to set forward the coming of the day of universal peace."
                                                                             -Frank Borman, Apollo 8 space mission, 1968