I love Christmas for all the fun it provides. I have fun decorating, creating, cooking and shopping. When I panic at the thought I won’t be able to accomplish all the things I want to do in time, I have to stop and remember that wonderful, mysterious phrase….the fullness of time, which in essence was God’s mathematics. He divided the time of the old world and the new… the old dispensation to the new with the Incarnation.

Christmas celebrates God’s announcement to the world in Bethlehem that He is with us.

The most important thing to me is the truth that Christmas is a testament of Divine Providence.

Throughout my life, from a very little child, I’ve seen the protective (and corrective) wings of God in my life. Sometimes it was in the form of human actors: my parents, friends, brothers, sister, husband, grandmothers and children.

Many times, the promise and reality of His presence came through the reading of His Word.

When I was little I knew that Santa Claus came magically in the night because of the great gift given to the world. I was a believer very early and learned through experience that He never fails us. Even when an answer to prayer was not what I willed, I understood that God would provide a better way.

My prayer is that the Lord of all will shine on this disbelieving, violent world and that the star that rested on Bethlehem will one day illuminate many hard, and harried hearts and show them the way to true Peace. May all the troops in harms way know the very presence of Emmanuel, God with us.

May the Prince of Peace, who is always willing that the world know him, pierce through this craven, adultorous, self-seeking generation.

God provided a lamb to Abraham through his willingness to follow Him, even to the point of committing the ultimate heart-breaking act; that of sacrificing his own, long wished for son, Isaac. It was a picture of the Savior to come.

Many of us resist that charge, to give ourselves completely to the creator of us all, but it is here where we find peace, happiness, joy, forgiveness and love.

Merry Christmas to all who read this post.

It is my prayer that each of you know God and His son, Jesus Christ and the great comforter, the Holy Spirit. I believe that it is His heart’s desire that all the world celebrate the once pagan holiday of which the One, who makes all things new, transformed into a remembrance of His desire to come among us, be One of us, and die for all of us, so we can truly know Him.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made… And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (Jn.1:1-3, 14).
- For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him…and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church… For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him… making peace through his blood, shed on the cross. (Col.1:16-20).

Welcome bRight & Early Readers!