Lord God,  Open the window that reveals Your truth so that we can breathe in Your grace, mercy and forgiveness.  Bring joy back into our lives, into our jobs, and into our relationships so that we will be so overwhelmed by the awareness of Your presence, that we can’t help but experience the joy that only comes from knowing Jesus.  Just simplify the complexity of the world into Your truth: That the battle has already been won and that God lives in this moment and so should we. So as we receive Christ today, at this altar, let us all remember that He also goes with us into the world that He so loves and that we can only share what we have an abundance of.  So let us be full and overflowing with the joy, love and compassion that has already been given to us by the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.  Amen.