Redeeming Love

O Lord of love, as we rapidly approach Christmas, the frenzy of life increases until it almost inundates us!  Like Peter, sinking into the angry waves of the Sea of Gallilee, we cry out to you, "Lord save me."  There is nothing in this life which can save us from our own self-destruction - only your abiding, redeeming love!   So as we reach out to you in faith, Lord grasp our hand and save us from the false and destructive teachings of our world today.  Let the true meaning of Christmas triumph in our hearts, over the secularism which indulges our every whim .  Help us to open our lives to your love, so your presence might so fill our hearts that your love will  rediate through our lives to the lives of others lost in this mad confussion.  Lord save us!  Amen.