We Celebrate and Await

Today is Christmas Day.

This is a day where we give gifts, laugh a lot, and over eat. It is a day we frantically look forward to once Thanksgiving passes. This 24-hour period becomes ingrained in our memories.

But for what?

What is the reason we celebrate Christmas?
Why do we do what we do on December 25th?
Who smiles the most when we gather together?
When was the last time your life changed on Christmas day?
Where will your focus be as you close your eyes tonight?
How has the Holy Spirit shaped you into someone new this Christmas?

We celebrate Christmas because of the incarnate birth of the infinite, personal, Creator God.
We await the triumphant return of Him who rose from the dead and sits on the right hand of Our Father.

Today there was many a feast, there were gifts given, there were laughs and photographs.

We humans were together as family, and whether we acknowledged it or not, Christ was with us. The presence of God filled our homes today. He was knocking at the back door, looking through the side window, sitting by the fire. When the shutter snapped and the flash bulb popped, He was smiling too. Standing at the sink, scrubbing pots and pans, our Savior selflessly served us. Holding the hand of the elderly, His powerful presence made those in permanent care feel right at home.

Thousands of years ago "the hurricane became human, fire became flesh" and God became man.

Today we remembered this mind-blowing reality.

Lives have been changed. Love has been lived.
We celebrate and await God's plan perfected.