It's Christmas Eve. There's an almost palpable sense of anticipation! The day of celebration is almost here!!! Family will wrap their arms around each other with joy and love and excitement!! Delicious morsels and aromas will delight our senses!! The gift giver is coming!!!
I know that for many, the gift giver comes dressed in red, with dreamed-of presents for those who deserve them. My gift giver came dressed in swaddling clothes - and none of us deserved him.
I know that Christmas is not the actual day on which he was born - no shepherds in their right mind would have had their sheep out on the hillside on a bleak winter's night! But it is the day we remember him coming! And the gift he became - of freedom offered to a broken and dying world.
It was a huge and wonderful gift!!!! Well deserving of the tidal wave of excitement that washes the earth each year!!! And it's a gift I bow before every year. Every day of every year. Thankyou Jesus - for your fathomless love gift. ❤️
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