Create a prayer that helps you focus and turn to the Lord as you go through the dark days of winter and seek to have your life touched by the light of the world.

1. Dark and Light
From the rising of the midwinter sun to its setting,
scatter the darkness with the light of Your love, O
Shining One. Make me short on mean thoughts, long on
offering words of comfort.
Make me short on being driven, long on paying
attention.
Make me short on focusing only on my own, long on
looking beyond.
Make me short on obsessive lists, long on spontaneous
acts f kindness.
Make me short on mindless activity, long on time to
reflect.
Make me short on tradition as habit, long on re-
discovery and re-owning.
Make me short on rushing and tiring, long on walking
and wondering.
Make me short on false festive jollity, long on stilling
and rooted joy.
Make me short on guilt, long on being merciful to
myself.
Make me short on being overwhelmed, long on
peaceableness as I set forth this day.
-Tess Ward

2. Write your short/long prayer

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4. Dark/Light Scriputes
Isa 9:2 The people who walk in darkness Will see a
great light; Those who live in a dark land, The light
will shine on them.
Mat 4:16 "THE PEOPLE WHO WERE SITTING IN
DARKNESS SAW A GREAT LIGHT, AND THOSE WHO
WERE SITTING IN THE LAND AND SHADOW OF
DEATH, UPON THEM A LIGHT DAWNED."
Joh 1:5 The Light shines in the darkness, and the
darkness did not comprehend it.
2Co 4:6 For God, who said, "Light shall shine out of
darkness," is the One who has shone in our hearts to
give the Light of the knowledge of the glory of God
in the face of Christ.
1Pe 2:9 But you are A CHOSEN RACE, A royal
PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY NATION, A PEOPLE FOR God's
OWN POSSESSION, so that you may proclaim the
excellencies of Him who has called you out of
darkness into His marvelous light;
Joh 8:12 Then Jesus again spoke to them, saying, "I
am the Light of the world; he who follows Me will
not walk in the darkness, but will have the Light of
life."
Eph 5:8 for you were formerly darkness, but now
you are Light in the Lord; walk as children of Light
Mat 10:27 "What I tell you in the darkness, speak in
the light; and what you hear whispered in your ear,
proclaim upon the housetops.