“O Lord, our God, when we are afraid do not let us despair. When we are disappointed do not let us become bitter. When we fall do not let us remain prostrate. When we are at the end of our understanding and our powers, do not let us then parish. No, let us feel then Thy nearness and Thy love, which Thou has promised especially to those whose hearts are humble and broken and who stand in fear before Thy word. To all [people] Thy Son has come as to those who are so beset. Indeed, because we are all so beset he was born in a stable and died on a cross. Lord, awaken us all and keep us all awake to this knowledge and to this confession.”
Karl Barth (1886-1968) in Howard L. Rice & Lamar Williamson, Jr., editors, A Book of Reformed Prayer. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 1998, page 110.
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