Time to wrap this up; Christmas is coming.
If you find yourself wanting to have a personal or family devotion apart from a church using the liturgy, here are my thoughts. (Last time I wrote about using an in-person or broadcast service as the context for your own devotions.)
Finding an easy liturgy is the easy part. A search engine is your friend but if you would like to use one developed in the 1930s for Unitarians and Universalists, see here. It’s pretty robust, and dates to a time when in Protestants weren’t as wordy as today, but it could face a little editing.
An excess of words does not make worship better and that’s specially true for individuals or very small groups. I think that the fewer people you have the shorter service should be and the slower it should progress. Worship takes as long as it needs to, and if it’s just you or you and another person — well, you know yourself better than I do. If alone, don’t be afraid to trail off a prayer or phrase, or to repeat one. Sometimes saying a prayer to yourself slowly, and then repeating it brings out different meanings and directs your prayer in unexpected ways. I think the Lukan nativity gospel (Revised Common Lectionary, NRSV) is a central part of the Christmas service, but the nativity gospel from Matthew (1:18-25) is an alternative, especially if you’ve not read it recently. Go slow, and my earlier comments notwithstanding, don’t be afraid to go long, and to think on all these things like Mary did. (Luke 2:19; see it’s worth going long in this case.)
Don’t be afraid to make alterations in the text, especially to simplify phrasings and include special petitions in the prayers.
Ok, but what would I recommend? Using the service above and a source of Christmas carols (the Open Hymnal Project has its Christmas 2025 booklet to download), I would read out loud, in a low voice or silently the first invocation, the bold-type prayer for minister and congregation and the Lord’s Prayer, although I would probably also shorten and modernize the text of those first two prayers and change the pronoun from we to I. Then comes a reading of the Gospel, followed by one of the prayers at the end: probably the first is it is more evergreen and general than the others. Then I would sing as many carols as I would like, or listen to them recorded. Short, small services do not lend themselves to being a hymn sandwich. A nativity scene makes a good focus for Christmas worship in the home.
However you mark the day, Merry Christmas and God bless.