Christmas should be a time of joy, laughter, family and friends. It should also be a time of quiet worship and thanking God for the
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fact that he chose to become a man and walk in our shoes. As my minister said in his Christmas sermon, “The watchmaker became the watch so He could understand us fully from the inside out.”
But this Christmas there were parents and grandparents, brothers and sisters in Connecticut who had children brutally taken from them. In my own corner of the world was a wife at bedside of husband who had emergency surgery, a friend with shingles, a priest who hurt his knee and couldn’t tend to his flock over Christmas, people stranded by freak Texas snows who couldn’t be with family, a family whose house burned, a friend who fell and broke her shoulder while tending to her husband recovering from a knee replacement – the list goes on.
Where is God? Right in the manger, right on the cross, and also in Heaven above preparing a place for us all before He comes back for His own. He is in our hearts, in our tears and in our hands as we help each other down this less than fairy tale life. The world as a whole didn’t end on 12/21/12. For some, though, it may have well had. Let us reach out, and then get down on our knees to show them God is there to bolster them through another day- as He is for us all if we choose to believe.
Tidings of comfort and joy.
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