by Barbara Chadwick
November:
The anticipation and
waiting!
Deanna, our
daughter-in-law, always sends me a gift on our son Kerry’s birthday. She includes and note saying how thankful she
is for her husband and thanks me for bringing him up so that he’s this
wonderful man! This gift she gives me every year fills my heart with blessings
and joy. So this year the gift was an amaryllis.
The amaryllis is growing
tall and at just the right time it will bloom.
I wait daily for this. I check it every day to see if it needs water and
to see just how much it has grown.
We are also waiting for
two great grandchildren. One is imminent and the other in February. One
granddaughter posted on facebook a picture of her belly (the baby) showing how
it seemed to be ready – but not yet. That
picture was two weeks ago. At just the right time these two babies will come.
December:
What a joy to see the gift
in full bloom!
Our church is doing a
Living Nativity this weekend. A guide takes a group of people around to
different active scenes depicting the beautiful story of the birth of Jesus.
The first scene shows the pregnant Mary with Joseph, there are Roman soldiers,
the innkeeper, shepherds in a field with animals then, of course, Mary, Joseph
and the baby Jesus in the manger. The tour continues with the Wise Men, etc.
and ends with cookies and hot chocolate in the fellowship hall.
In this fifteen minute
tour we go from the pregnant Mary to see the baby “wrapped in swaddling clothes and
lying in a manger.” Luke
2:7
In our world we talk about
“real time” and instant chocolate, oatmeal, etc. We, (humans) get impatient sometimes thinking
God doesn’t see what’s going on. We think we can see and judge when a thing
should happen. But God’s timing is different.
It is perfect just as His gift of a Savior is perfect.
The Jews waited for
hundreds of years for the Messiah, But when the right time finally came, God
sent his own Son. Galatians 4:4
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