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For God still loves the world

Inspired by Christianity Today, Cover December 2020

Waiting for Christmas 2020

Our recent Advent retreat caused me to realize that in today’s world of uncertainty, I have never felt closer to the long-ago world into which God the Father chose to send his Son, a time of tremendous political, economic and religious turmoil.

Our current condition of global pandemic seems unprecedented, though I have found myself considering of late another dark time, 76 years ago, when my own 20-year-old father spent Christmas in a snowy fox-hole during the Battle of the Bulge. (He said he never got warm again)

That winter of 1944, immediate danger and an uncertain future loomed large for him and for family waiting at home. Danger and uncertainty loom large once again, feeling terribly real and close at hand.

Such was the case long ago in that ancient time when, "the angel Gabriel was sent by God to the town of Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph. And the virgin's name was Mary." 

It seems God chooses to come into unwelcoming places, the very places that most desperately need God-with-us, Emmanuel. "For God so loved the world that He sent his Son.."

The best news for all in this year of longing is that God still loves the world and has every intention of once again showing up Peace...

Thank You

For the past six months, as my adjustment to Covid-19, I have sent out newsletters every other Wednesday. Like all of us, I began without knowing for how long. Like many of us, I have been blessed and changed by doing so.

Mostly, I want to thank all of you who faithfully read and then forwarded to friends, who have enjoyed and responded. It truly warms my heart!

As a Christmas / thank you gift, may I offer you links to revisit what it turns out were the five most read of my newsletters? (If I missed a real favorite of yours, let me know and I will re-send that one to you personally!)