The stark contrasts at Christmas
always cause me to ponder and pray.
Plenty and poverty,
peace and conflict,
believers and unbelievers,
joy and sorrow,
light and dark . . .
How I rejoice in the knowledge that “Christ became a human being
and lived here on earth among us and was full of loving forgiveness and truth”
(John 1:14 tlb).
Have a blessed Christmas because
Our God Is With Us
IMMANUEL, God with us
wrapped in
swaddling clothes.
Helpless and
dependent.
IMMANUEL God with us
clothed in
a Rabbi’s garb.
Truth and love
revealing.
IMMANUEL God with us
stripped and
mocked and beaten.
Choosing death
that we might live.
IMMANUEL God with us
robed in
glorious white.
Our Savior
and coming King.
Marlene Bagnull
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Marlene,
Amen, I pray you and your family have a blessed Christmas “with God”!
Jim