"On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me . . . " is how the the old Christmas carol begins - and on this 'first day of Christmas', the 26th of December, I am pondering with Mary the gift of the Christ Child. God, the only One fully capable of 'true love', is giving us much more than " . . . . a partridge in a pear tree", God is giving us God's own presence, God's own self, God's own life. "Love Divine, All Love's Excelling" is manifest in the very breath of God born in Bethlehem. In God's Child, God's Love becomes part and parcel of the air we breathe and, in this season of Christmas, we are given reason to sing the carols of heaven as we walk the ways of the earth with God's Son, Jesus.
This Christmastide, pause along the way and breathe deeply of God's Love born for you. Then exhale in joy a carol of life lived in faith as, with the shepherds of old, you return to the fields of your living with a new song of wonder, proclaiming in transformed life Good News for all the world to hear.
Your servant in Christ,
Pastor Don
Church Sign for the Week:
THE LOVE OF GOD IS NOT DENOMI-
NATIONAL AND DOES NOT EXCLUDE
ANYONE. WHY SHOULD WE?
EVERYONE WELCOME HERE.
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