Friday, 12 December 2008
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Holiday Happenings
We had a wonderful Thanksgiving, full of thanks and full of family and full of food and just plain full - it was great. But Christmas is my fav, and I'm loving the season, even if it did seem to just appear out of nowhere this year. I think the house remodel has kept us sort of tied up mentally and physically lately and I feel like I'm chronically a page behind on the calendar! Still, Christ has come! and that's way more exciting and important that how far behind I am on gift-buying and the fact that all my Christmas stuff is packed away awaiting the move and all the other lesser stuff.
I was touched by the childlike faith of a prayer request on our church's weekly email, submitted by a 9 year-old:
"I would like to pray that the whole world has a Merry Christmas."
Isn't that just precious? I thought about it for a while and decided it was also challenging. I think in some ways I've settled for the Christians having a "Merry Christmas" and everyone else having a "Happy Holiday." But today I prayed that the whole world would have at least a single moment this Christmas season when they worshipped our King. That's a hefty request, I realize - but the Lord himself says in Isaiah 44:6,
"Thus says the LORD, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the LORD of hosts : 'I am the first and I am the last, And there is no God besides Me.'"
Come let us worship and bow down...
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