Christmas is Coming
10 days to go. How are you feeling?. Excited, filled with anticipations, happy? Or stressed, overwhelmed, and tired?
We’ve talked a lot this year about the challenges we all face, the changes we have had to make, the loss of the the way things were, or the way we wanted them to be.
Now, as we walk (or run) those last 10 days towards Christmas, it seems like a good moment to reflect and ask God what He is doing this year.
Unexpected
I’ve been doing a reading plan with a couple of friends called “Journey to the Manger.” I have loved the reminder of the intentionality with which God sent His son to us. This year, what has captured my attention in a new way, is the unexpected way God chose to act. The unlikely family, the unlikely location, the unlikely timing. God ushered in a new kingdom and a new King, in a completely unexpected way, and most people missed it.
Eyes to SEe
I don’t want to miss it. I don’t want to miss Him. In this crazy year, I don’t want to be so focused on what is not that I miss what God is doing.
So this week, my prayer for myself, and for you, is simply that God would give us His eyes to see.
To see circumstances and people, change and loss, challenges and expectations through His eyes. That in doing so, we find Him, we find Hope, and we don’t miss it.