This deviates from the historic liturgies from which I have drawn my advent prayers this season, but it is one that is dear to my heart because of my vocation and its historical value:

Give us, O God, the vision which can see Your love in the world

in spite of human failure.

Give us the faith to trust Your goodness

in spite of our ignorance and weakness.

Give us the knowledge that we may continue to pray

with understanding hearts.

And show us what each one of us can do to set forward

the coming of the day of universal peace.

- Frank Borman, Apollo 8, 1968