‘Twas the Week Before Christmas

‘Twas the week before Christmas,
And the schedule is full.
There are people to see,
Arrangements to make,
Events to celebrate,
Classes to teach,
And miles to drive.

These will not fill our hearts,
We need something more.
It is in those moments between
That we are offered true love,
True peace, true joy.
It happens as we stop, and
We think of the first Christmas.

The God Who made the universe,
And created everything in it,
Made Himself small,
So He could come as a baby
To rescue mankind.
An unlikely superhero,
But God excels in choosing the unimaginable.

He chose an infant to save the world.
He chose shepherds to tell the story.
He chose foreigners to bring gifts.
He chose an uninspiring shelter
In an insignificant town
To write a new chapter
In the greatest love story ever told.

Truths from the story break in
To the schedule of the week.
They call us to shift our concentration
To the One Who pursued relationship with us.
Those truths seem impossible, yet
They call us to once again accept the gift being offered.
They call us to move our focus to where it should be.

Praise and Prayer

• This past week, the two classes at the cram school went well.  There were good interactions with the students.  Please pray for God to direct the moments in the remaining 5 class periods on December 22-23.
• Praise the Lord that we are able to celebrate 40 years of God’s grace in our marriage relationship.
• Please pray that cold weather and listlessness would not prevent people from coming to attend the Christmas Eve and Christmas Day events at Baozhong Alliance Church.