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It is amazing how Christmas sneaks up on you, right?
This Christmas is a little strange for me. My wife and I are outside our of home country and the normal signs of "Christmas" are not visible... things like snow and short dark days. Instead, where we live it's raining, green, and bursting with new life. Although there is so much new life around us, I can't help but notice all the troubling things going on in the world.
A few friends in my community have lost loved ones, St. Marks Coptic Cathedral in Cairo was bombed this past Sunday killing 25+. Life can be tragic.
But It's Christmas right??
The Advent and Christmas seasons are so wonderful. But the message of the coming of Christ the Lord can feel strange when we are surrounded by so much sadness and pain. Why do all things in our world and in our personal lives happen now??? Why not later??
We live in a world that has been given the greatest gift ever to be given- Christ the Messiah. We also live in a world that constantly rejects the gift. somedays it's hard to even think that Christ did come. Shouldn't things be different?
I didn't know how to process everything going on, and I didn't want to just make a social media post. This morning, as I was doing my Advent reading, I read Isaiah 9- Where the prophet Isaiah foresees the coming of Christ. Isaiah writes, "The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light". I am a person who knows, at least some, darkness, and I am a person who has seen glimpses of this "light" that Isaiah speaks of, but I often don't live as someone who knows Christ. I am much better at rejecting this gift, in the way I speak and treat others, of God rather than allowing it to take root in my life.
I hope this song, in the midst of all the inconveniences and heart ache you are facing, can help you to see this surprise, the gift, the light, the pleasant disruption that Christ brought to our world. Pause, breathe in the gift.
To us Christ comes.
To us Christ given.
What should we do with such a gift?
Let us welcome the Prince of Peace.
-Drew
lyrics
the light it shone, I can't un-see it.
us dark dead bones, in a land of shadows.
us warring nations, do we believe in?
Wonderful Counselor,
Mighty God,
Everlasting Father,
Prince of Peace.
our hearts graced, lifted from oppressors.
the greatest gift to ever be given,
but we keep on living constantly rejecting
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