Monday, November 30, 2009
I love Christmas. Christmas decorations. Christmas lights. Christmas smells. Christmas music. Christmas movies (cheesy or not). Christmas gatherings. Christmas services. I love love love it.
This year, while I enjoy all of these things, I have also committed myself to be more intentional about remembering the greatest part of Christmas -- God's great and tiny gift. Amidst the lights, the smells, the music, I look forward with anticipation at the way God will reveal Himself to me as I take pause to reflect in a deeper way upon what it means that Jesus came to earth, relinquishing His deity. To ponder what it must have been like for Mary, as she glowed with pregnancy, for the shepherds as they tiptoed into the stable to peer at this newborn baby, for the wise men who understood there was something special about that star and that babe.
As we begin the advent season, I want to experience the awe and expectation of God's prophesied and promised Messiah arriving to a humble girl in a humble stable. I want to realize in a fresh way the glory of Emmanuel, God With Us.
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