Merry Christmas. Can you believe we are here? This episode's a little different. I'm going to be sharing three really beautiful prayers with you that you can just listen to as you'd like this week. One prayer is for the start of the Christmas season, another is for the preparation of a meal, and another is for wrapping gifts.

You're listening to Work and Play with Nancy Ray, episode 2.99.

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Simply put, that is where our life and our legacy take place.

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Let me just start out by saying these three prayers were written, not by me, but by Douglas McKelvey and a few others.

They come from the book Every Moment Holy, which is one of my very favorite books of prayer.

Highly recommend.

There's three volumes.

They're beautiful.

And they have a few about Christmas time.

And I just thought what my heart needs the week of Christmas is to be centered on the true meaning of Christmas and the reason

why we do the things we do. And so I just wanted to share with you a few of my favorite prayers.

And I'm just going to read them over you. So here's how I would encourage you to use this

episode.

Remember what the prayers are about.

So one, you can listen to the first one is just the start of Christmas season.

But maybe like pause and save the next one for when you're actually preparing a meal or actually wrapping presents because those are the two other prayers in this episode.

And so you can kind of

maybe pop those earbuds in while you're actually doing those things and like focus on the Lord

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