It's a year I care very little about the gifts I am giving or receiving, but about the deeper longing of a hurting heart that aches for the sorrow and brokenness surrounding it. It's been a year of seeing so much loss and so much selfish human depravity in the face of being given opportunities to love and serve neighbors. A year of seeing people argue over so many things. And it makes me even more aware of the perfection of the gift that was given to humanity on Christmas that we certainly did not deserve. The more broken I see our world is, the crazier it is for the God of the universe to send his most precious possession into, knowing our hearts and what would happen. I would not want to send my beloved child into this hot mess.
But the darker our world seems, the brighter the light and hope of Jesus shines. It's been a year where humanity looks terrible but it's also been a year where we have been able to see the kindness and generosity of others even more brightly.
Merry Christmas!
"Oh come now hail His arrival
The God of creation
Royalty robed in the flesh He created
Jesus the maker has made Himself known
All hail the infinite infant God
The One who had no start and knows no end
Became confined in time and tense
The Everlasting God
The Great I Am
In the mercy of a mother's hands"
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