Second Sunday of Christmas Additional Collect (Redub)

God, who nurtures our lives and creation,

in love you emptied yourself to live alongside us

that the world may have life.

Lead us to find the your gifts of love

in those peoples and places

so much in need of life

and gift us with life in all its fullness.

Amen.

The Gunning Fog readability index suggests 11.77 years of formal education is required to understand this prayer on a first reading, the Common Worship prayer requires 14 years.

Here's the information on how this prayer is a redub.

My collection of five prayers for the Second Sunday After Christmas are here.

You can also look at the full Index of Prayers.

The project runs from Advent 2012.

If you want to use the prayers, an acknowledgement of myself as author and, if there's space, the link to my blog would be much appreciated.