I hope you enjoyed your weekend celebrations! Here is my latest letter...
Cheer and hope is in the air
this season, as we all flit around giving gifts and taking in the Christmas
lights and sights. But on that cool
night in the Bethlehem inn, there was hardship, discouragement, and I’d bet
there were even moments of despair. Mary
had been given a joyous task, but I am certain it was a chore to take the
journey away from home, quite pregnant, to give birth to the Holy Child,
Jesus. And Joseph had his moments of
discouragement and despair, I am sure.
His beautiful betrothed was with child…and before he had the vision to
let him in on the what was happening, I can only guess that he was losing hope,
having planned to ‘to divorce her secretly’, Matthew 1:19, HCSB…if my wedding
had been called off, after all the excitement of planning and preparation, I’m
sure I would have been feeling lots of despair.
Even the time in history God chose to paint the landscape of the
Nativity Story was a dark one. The
governmental powers and challenges were tense, the rebuilding of the temple was
slow and not nearly as grand as the previous one, and there had been no
revelations from God for hundreds of years. [source:
my knowledgeable former-pastor husband]
Finish reading here, on the Letters to My Sisters site....
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