Important People
12/6/2015
Good Morning Gentle
Readers
Well
it’s Sunday once again and I and Cindy Lou were off to church, running a tad
late but off to church regardless. It’s been a good week I guess we seem to be
growing closer and closer if that’s possible and even more so it’s down to
three months till the baby makes her entrance into the world. Just a note here
I don’t know the gender of our baby but I feel that it’s a girl, a super cute
darling girl just like her mother. Anyway we are off to church and this year as
advent goes by I am really feeling the journey toward Christmas for a number of
reasons.
First
off of course is the arrival of our baby due in March, for the first time in my
life I actually have a bit of insight on how Joseph must of felt at least a
little bit. Am I going to be, pardon the pun, a good enough father for my
child, will I be able to care for and support her, teach her and love her
enough that she will be alright in our hectic crazy world, will she be safe
from harm, will she be happy, all of these questions run through my mind and I
hope and pray that I can come up with a good answer for them.
The
second thing that strikes me is how blessed I am. In the reading today the prophets
spoke of how God is blessing us and giving us all we will ever want and need
regardless of who we are. Now in our world of poverty, war, anger and fear that
sounds really strange but God is there still sending his children to make peace
and spread his love in a world that for the most part still rejects that
message, but still he raises people up to do the work that he started so long
ago, still working toward us walking hand in hand with all of our brothers and
with him. This is hard to see if you don’t look but trust me there are people
in this world making that effort every day and in every moment of their lives.
We
also have to look at our own lives to see what God is doing to make his word
and his promise known, if you get a chance today look around in your life for
just a bit, just look for the hand of God blessing and keeping you, again trust
me in a million ways it’s there.
The
gospel today gives us a historic frame work for the beginning of Christ’s
ministry and witness to what was going on then and now. God did not go to the civil
powers, to the emperor, to the high priest not even to the governor of the province;
he went to John the Baptist and told him to proclaim the message, and to literally
point out God’s presence among us. I hope as Christmas approaches we are
listening to the voice of the wild man from the desert, listening to him say
repent, change for the Kingdom of God is at hand…..
Take
Care and God Bless
Good
Enough
Luke 3 1-6
In the fifteenth year of Tiberius Caesar's
reign, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judaea, Herod tetrarch
of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of the territories of Ituraea and
Trachonitis, Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,
and while the
high-priesthood was held by Annas and
Caiaphas, the word of God came
to John the
son of Zechariah, in the desert.
He went
through the whole Jordan area
proclaiming a baptism of
repentance for the forgiveness of sins,
as it is
written in the book of the sayings of Isaiah the
prophet: A voice of one that cries in the desert: Prepare a way for the Lord,
make his paths straight! Let every valley be filled in, every mountain and hill
be leveled, winding ways be straightened and rough roads made smooth,
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