I'm still breathing. Weekly Thing kinda-sorta
Hello everyone,
Wow. It's been a month since I wrote a "weekly" email, and plenty has been going on in my life that much of it is a blur. But if you remember from my last Weekly, I mentioned going through a somewhat difficult time and admittedly I'm still in some of it. However, the good news is that there is Good News -- Christ is not very far. What an appropriate season to be reminded of the fact that God in the flesh was born among us, lived among us, and was sent to be our death. I've never thought too much about Advent before, because I never grew up in an environment that celebrated Advent, but what a wonderful thing to ponder over and think about the significance of Christ's seemingly insignificant birth. Baby Jesus in a manger is usually a cleanly depicted affair with clean robes and clean hands, but the reality is that a manger is a feeding trough for barn animals which was probably in a dirty barn. Not very glamorous and surely conditions that many of us now would be adverse to being in at all, let alone to give birth in. Christ's humble beginning is such a picture of God's immense love and desire to heal the desperate condition of humanity. If Jesus could be born in a dirty feeding trough, surely surely He would accept us and dwell with you and me.
A sermon from this past Sunday has been particularly helpful in reflecting on present issues and to really think about the significance of Jesus working on the hidden and damaged places in my heart. Please take the time to give this sermon a listen!
http://fairmount.liberti.org/sermons/advent-looking-for-consolation
Love in Him,
your sister,
Yvonne
Wow. It's been a month since I wrote a "weekly" email, and plenty has been going on in my life that much of it is a blur. But if you remember from my last Weekly, I mentioned going through a somewhat difficult time and admittedly I'm still in some of it. However, the good news is that there is Good News -- Christ is not very far. What an appropriate season to be reminded of the fact that God in the flesh was born among us, lived among us, and was sent to be our death. I've never thought too much about Advent before, because I never grew up in an environment that celebrated Advent, but what a wonderful thing to ponder over and think about the significance of Christ's seemingly insignificant birth. Baby Jesus in a manger is usually a cleanly depicted affair with clean robes and clean hands, but the reality is that a manger is a feeding trough for barn animals which was probably in a dirty barn. Not very glamorous and surely conditions that many of us now would be adverse to being in at all, let alone to give birth in. Christ's humble beginning is such a picture of God's immense love and desire to heal the desperate condition of humanity. If Jesus could be born in a dirty feeding trough, surely surely He would accept us and dwell with you and me.
A sermon from this past Sunday has been particularly helpful in reflecting on present issues and to really think about the significance of Jesus working on the hidden and damaged places in my heart. Please take the time to give this sermon a listen!
http://fairmount.liberti.org/sermons/advent-looking-for-consolation
Love in Him,
your sister,
Yvonne