![]() All we have to do is reach out.ĬAIN Genesis 4:1-10 and Isaiah 55:12-13 (Janet G. He is mine for keeps! God still offers Jesus to day. When I was nine years old I reached out and took Jesus into my heart. God sent Jesus to the world to die for us. Long ago, another very special Father gave a very special gift. I ripped it open? Guess what? It was Chatty Cathy! I remember asking Dad if she was mine for keeps! Dad said she was. I remember I had to reach up to get the gift. It looked like the right size to be my Chatty Cathy. I was sitting on the floor and could see under the tree. Then my Dad said there was one more package under the tree. Soon, I had opened up all my presents and guess what? NO Chatty Cathy. Those were the longest eleven days of my life! I tried to be perfect! Finally, it was Christmas morning! At my house, each person opened up a present and we went around the circle. Maybe, if I was good, I would get a Chatty Cathy. My mother reminded me that Christmas was only eleven days away. Soon it would be my birthday! Maybe I would get Chatty Cathy. I wondered if I would ever make it to my birthday.įinally the days began to get cooler. ![]() I was even good when my baby sister was born. Do you know when my birthday is? December! How could I be good for five whole months? I decided to try. I must have looked awfully sad because Mom said that if I was REALLY good I might get one for my birthday! Well, remember, this was summertime. They reminded me that a new baby was coming. They told me that we could not afford it. I finally got up the courage to ask my parents for the doll. What do commercials talk about during the summer? Toys! It seemed that every other commercial was abut a special toy. Have you ever wanted anything so badly that you could taste it? I was only four years old and it was summertime. The rubbing of the Madonna and Child was done by Kit Boyer from a wooded lithograph block created by his great-grandmother, Delores Schroeder. I hope these readings help you to throw off the broken attitudes and feelings you have harbored over the past year in preparation for the coming of our Lord. There are no dates, no missionary birthdays, but rather a collection of thoughts, feelings and experiences that describe how it is to live in an imperfect world, as imperfect persons who struggle to create the vision and reality of God's peaceable kingdom each day. This year's advent book is a bit different from years past. The color of the season is purple-a royal color presaging the birth of Jesus, and a mourning color-reminding us to cast off that which limits our ability to rejoice with and sing praises to God. Advent is a time of preparation and reflection. Weddings, birthdays and anniversaries have been celebrated.Īll these events conspire to make up the world with which we try to create God's Peaceable Kingdom. Kindergartners and graduating High School Seniors received bibles, and Freshmen started down the path of journal writing. Efforts to nurture peace in the Middle East dotted the past year's news, some to take root and thrive and some to wither and die.īut we have also seen the miracle of all the new lives in and out of our nursery. Airline disasters and the forces of nature have touched lives all over the world. Peace broke out in Northern Ireland on Good Friday, and then was shattered later in Omagh. Once again we are gathered in the dim winter of the year to prepare to celebrate the miracle of the birth of our Christ. Gaye Tyner Rountree - Peace I Leave With You.īobby Thomason - Holy Places, Holy Times Crescent Hill Baptist Church Crescent Hill Baptist Church Advent Meditations - 1998 The Peaceable Kingdom The Writers:īecky Greenlee - Seeing Joe Through Christ's Eyes
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