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INTRODUCTION
AS WE BEGIN OUR FINAL WEEK OF ADVENT PREPARING TO CELEBRATE OUR SAVIOR ON CHRISTMAS DAY WE ARE
REMINDED THAT ADVENT BECKONS ALL WHO CONSIDER THEMSELVES CHRISTIANS TO COME TO THE STABLE AND
THERE FALL ON OUR KNEES AS THE SHEPHERDS SURELY DID, YIELDING OUR ALLEGIANCE, OUR HEARTS AND OUR
WILL TO THE NEWBORN KING......THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS IS SHOWN IN THE LOVE WE KNOW IN JESUS, IT’S
SHOWN IN THE LOVE WE SHARE WITH ONE ANOTHER, IT’S SHOWN IN THE LOVE OPENS HEARTS, SOOTHES SOULS
AND REMAINS ETERNAL......AND IT IS THIS LOVE THAT FEEDS THE PEACE, JOY AND HOPE WE CELEBRATE AND LIFT
UP IN THIS SEASON......GIANT CREDIT CARD PROVIDER MASTERCARD BEGAN THEIR MARVELOUS ADVERTISING
CAMPAIGN IN 1997 CALLED SIMPLY AND MEMORABLY, “PRICELESS” WITH A TAG LINE AND WARM MOMENTS IN
COMMERCIALS AND ON BILLBOARDS, ON RADIO AND TV AND ONLINE....ONE SUCH COMMERCIAL ENDS WITH THESE
POWERFUL WORDS AND IMAGES TO MATCH...... “GETTING CLOSER AND CLOSER TOGETHER…PRICELESS”
WHAT IS TRULY PRICELESS IN OUR FAITH AND IN CELEBRATING THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT WAS NAMED THIS WAY
BY R. RACHEL GAUNA....AN A LIVING AUTHOR WHO PAINTS WITH HER WORDS…SHE WRITES:
you cannot put a price on love, or peace, but the cost of living a life without either is one that ultimately
becomes burdensome; where we will pay top dollar just to feel a semblance of love, in hope of finding a
glimmer of peace.
love, like the air we breathe, is sustenance.”
CHRISTINA ROSETTI’S POEM BECAME A BEAUTIFUL HYMN OF THIS SEASON POINTING THE WAY TO JESUS’ ON
MANGER SIDE SAYING:
Love came down at Christmas,
love all lovely, Love divine;
Love was born at Christmas;
star and angels gave the sign.
Love shall be our token;
love be yours and love be mine;
love to God and others,
love for plea and gift and sign.
MARY’S LOVE SONG AND OURS
AS WE BEGIN THIS FINAL WEEK LEADING UP TO CHRISTMAS DAY, PAUSE WITH ME TO REMEMBER HOW, WHERE
AND WHY FOLKS COME TO GRASP THE REAL SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS......IT WAS TRUE WHEN DAN SCHAEFFER
PENNED IT WAY BACK IN 2003 AND PERHAPS EVEN TRUER NOW AS WE STAND AT THE EDGE OF CELEBRATING THE
ARRIVAL OF 2023......
FOR TOO MANY, CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS ARE LARGELY LONELY AFFAIRS.
EVEN THOSE WHO HAVE MANY
FRIENDS CAN FIND THEMSELVES FEELING ALONE AS THOSE FRIENDS GO OFF TO SPEND THE HOLIDAYS WITH
THEIR OWN FAMILIES.
ONE OF THE MOST DIFFICULT PARTS OF CHRISTMAS FOR MANY PEOPLE IS THE REALITY THAT, CULTURALLY,
IT HAS BECOME A FAMILY TIME OF CELEBRATION.
FOR THOSE WHO LIVE IN BROKEN FAMILIES, WHO ENDURE
FRACTURED, FRAGILE RELATIONSHIPS, THIS ONLY ACCENTUATES THEIR PAIN AND ALONENESS.
CHRISTMAS WITH ALL ITS ATTENDANT PARTIES AND GET-TOGETHERS, OFTEN ACCENTUATES OUR
LONELINESS, OUR FRUSTRATION AND LONGING.
IN SUCH SITUATIONS, THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT CAN SEEM
BEYOND OUR GRASP.
IT IS WORTHWHILE IN THIS SEASON, EVEN IN THIS FINAL WEEK OF ADVENT, TO CONSIDER THE THINGS THAT MAKE
FOR LOVE AND PEACE IN THIS SEASON..........FOR WHEN GOD CAME TO US IN THE PERSON OF JESUS CHRIST, WE
WE ABLE TO SEE THAT GOD’S PURPOSE WAS DELIVERANCE NOT CONDEMNATION, LOVE NOT JUDGMENT........
IN MARY’S BLESSED LOVE OF HER NEW SON COMING INTO THE WORLD, IN JOSEPH’S WELCOME OF HIS SURPRISE
SON COMING, IN THE LOVE IT TOOK FOR SHEPHERDS TO FOLLOW THE YONDER STAR.........IN THE LOVE IT TOOK
THE ANGELS TO COME AND SAY, FEAR NOT.........EVEN MARY’S SONG ANTICIPATING THE COMING OF THE BABY,
SPURRED ON BY ELIZABETH’S VISIT TO HER TO LET HER KNOW THAT EVEN IN HER PREGNANCY SHE WAS NOT
ALONE......MARY’S SONG THAT THE CHURCH CALLS THE MAGNIFICAT SINGS OF THE LOVE SHE HAD FOR JESUS:
MARY’S LOVE SONG SEES, ANTICIPATES AND PREDICTS THE GOODNESS, EVEN THE GREATNESS OF THE LORD,
JESUS CHRIST RIGHT HERE IN THE LAND OF THE LIVING.....IT’S POETRY SINGS TO OUR SOULS AND FOR A MOMENT
LIFTS US OUT OF THE LONELINESS THAT MIGHT OTHERWISE ENGULF US IN THIS HOLY SEASON.....
BUT MARY’S LOVE SONG DOESN’T HIT HOME UNLESS WE CAN SING OUR LOVE SONG FOR JESUS OF OUR OWN,
BELOVEDS........
LOVE, ONE WRITER WROTE, IS A CONTACT SPORT.......AND GOD DEMONSTRATED THIS SO BEAUTIFULLY WITH THE
BABY JESUS IN THE MANGER WHERE THE SAVIOR HAD TO BE CUDDLED, AND HELD, KISSED AND HUGGED......GOD
DREW NEAR TO US WHEN JESUS WAS BORN........
HOW WILL YOU SHOW YOUR LOVE AS ADVENT GIVES WAY TO CHRISTMAS DAY? THE STORY IS TOLD OF THE
OVERWHELMED WIFE AND MOTHER.....
A YOUNG WIFE AND MOTHER, OVERWHELMED BY HER RESPONSIBILITIES WALKED OUT ON HER FAMILY ONE
DAY.
SHE JUST LAID DOWN HER APRON AND LEFT.
WHEN SHE CALLED THAT NIGHT, HER FRANTIC HUSBAND
DEMANDED AN EXPLANATION.
BUT SHE JUST HUNG UP.
SHE CALLED EVERY WEEK TO CHECK ON THE
CHILDREN, BUT SHE REFUSED TO LET THEM KNOW WHERE SHE WAS.
THE HUSBAND PLEADED WITH HER TO
RETURN, BUT SHE WOULDN’T LISTEN.
FINALLY, HE TRACKED HER DOWN TO A DUMPY HOTEL ON THE OTHER
SIDE OF THE STATE.
WHEN SHE ANSWERED THE DOOR, HE POURED OUT HIS LOVE FOR HER AND BEGGED
HER TO COME HOME.
SHE FELL INTO HIS ARMS AND CRIED FOR FORGIVENESS.
LATER, WHEN HER HUSBAND
ASKED WHY SHE HADN’T RETURNED BEFORE, SHE REPLIED, “ALL THOSE CLAIMS OF YOUR LOVE--- THEY
WERE JUST WORDS BEFORE.
BUT THEN YOU CAME.”
HOW WILL YOUR SHOW YOUR LOVE THIS CHRISTMAS?
HOW WILL YOUR LOVE BE MADE PLAIN?
WHO WILL BE
BLESSED BECAUSE YOU SHOWED YOUR LOVED BY SHOWING UP AND SHOWING LOVE IN UNEXPECTED WAYS?
THE CONNECTION BETWEEN LOVE AND PEACE
SOMETIMES, BELOVEDS, WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE END OF THINGS IT HELPS IN UNDERSTANDING WHY THOSE
THINGS BEGAN THE WAY THEY DID.........THIS MORNING, OUR SCRIPTURES ARE 2 SAYINGS OF OUR SAVIOR, JESUS
ASSURING HIS DISCIPLES AND FOLLOWERS OF THE TIDINGS OF PEACE HE HOPED FOR THEM.....ISN’T IT
INTERESTING THESE TIDINGS OF PEACE WERE EVEN NEEDED AFTER HIS 3 YEAR MINISTRY ON EARTH.....AFTER ALL
THE PEOPLE HE HEALED AND SITUATIONS HE REPAIRED........AFTER ALL THE COMPASSION HE SHOWED AND ALL
THE LOVING HE DID.....STILL WE HEAR JESUS SAY:
THE WORLD HAD NOT YET BEGUN TO MAKE THE PEACE JESUS CAME INTO THE WORLD TO BRING STICKY.....
WE REMEMBER AND CHERISH HIS REASON FOR COMING INTO THE WORLD IN THE FIRST PLACE AS RECORDED BY Isaiah 9:6
FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD THAT GOD SENT THE PRINCE OF PEACE.....TO SOOTHE OUR HEARTS, AND GUIDE
US INTO NEW PATHWAYS, AND EVEN NEW EXPRESSIONS OF LOVE........
SO, PRAY WITH ME, FOR PEACE THAT SPEAKS TO THE WARS THAT ARE RAGING, AND TO HOUSEHOLDS AND
FAMILIES IN TURMOIL THIS ADVENT SEASON........PRAY WITH ME FOR PEACE NOT TO JUST COME FOR A MOMENT
BUT FOR PEACE TO COME.....AND STICK AND STAY....AND CHANGE THE WORLD AND MAKE IT TRULY A BETTER
PLACE.........
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