Merry Christmas

It’s Christmas Eve. Only a little while and Christmas morning will be upon us. It’s quiet now. The stores are all closed. Most everyone has made their way home. Just the odd car goes by. The winter air is still and cold. Above the clouds the stars shine brightly and the moon casts its diminishing light on one and all.
It’s Christmas Eve and the presence of Christ casts His shadow on us all. We recognize the irreplaceable shadow of a unmistakable baby in a loving mother’s arms. He has come. In the last few moments I came in out of the cold. I had stood out on the back porch looking up into the dark sky. Taking a few brief moments to talk to Jesus. To welcome Him to his morning birth. To welcome the reason we celebrate. As Christians, we celebrate the most important moment of our year. The moment of His coming. But there is another moment in time we celebrate and it’s that instant when we took Jesus into our lives and hearts.
Now as the old clock on the wall strikes twelve, I know beyond a shadow of a doubt the Jesus has come. He is here. I can only imagine what it would have been like on that night so long ago. Maybe it was quiet like it is tonight. Everyone has gone to bed, the stocking are hung, and the lights have dimmed. The hustle of Christmas is over and now, and now, we finally give our tired selves over to the exhaustion that leads up to one very special day. The last gift is wrapped, each stocking lovingly filled, and the milk and cookies have disappear. It’s Christmas.
Thank you Lord God of the universe for sending your Son, who came as a baby, experienced what we experience, and at the same time, brought peace and joy to our hearts.

Christmas is a celebration of peace. And it came in a child and it comes to all, even today.
Merry Christmas
Robin