My Annual Reminder

Even though we're toning it down this Christmas, it's still my favorite time of year.  It's my yearly reminder that God keeps His promises, and loves us more than any earthly father could.  I hold my little baby in my arms, and am amazed that the Creator of the universe would choose to come in such humble form, to walk in our shoes and ultimately give his life for us.  He didn't come to conquer the world with political power, but the heart with love.  He fought the empirical religious establishment of His day, bloated with hypocrisy and oppressive man-made rules, to build the bridge that allows us to experience God's forgiveness and unconditional love.   He became one of us.  Everything we go through, He suffered and understands.  An oppressed minority in a conquered land, with the shame of an assumed illegitimate birth.  Hunger, poverty, homelessness, loneliness, rejection, betrayal, even torture and death.  He conquered it all.  And because of Him, we can too.  What better way to greet the new year than to finish the old one with such a display of His love?