I find Christmas comes at quite the perfect time. I wound down the year reading Ezekiel. It was a little painful at first, no lie, but as I pressed on it was a reminder of how I have fallen short and sought other gods this year. Just as the Israelites had done the same. I was reminded of the hope we have and celebrate because Christmas was coming. I was not in the same hopeless situation the Israelites were in- because I know the penalty for those shortcomings has been paid and we would be celebrating the coming of that hope.
It is perfect timing as the year winds down to be reminded of hope- because it is so easy to look back on the year and be reminded of all the ways we have fallen short and the resolutions we messed up and failed to achieve. But we have the reminder as the year ends that hope as come, that we are made new. We enter with hope and new resolve! Happy New Year!
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