WOW! What a year it was! The news was continuously full of gloom and doom with just small bits of good news to keep a body going. The government was all a mess. Hard to get good paying jobs to feed a family. Leaders from other countries got involved. While we waited to see who the new leader would be, when the leader came not all the people believed it was true. Sounds like 2016. But this is when Jesus who is the Christ would be born. The people had been waiting for countless generations, ever since the prophets started telling of the Savior that would come from God. It’s hard to wait through the season of advent, can’t imagine what it was like for those who waited for generations and generations. They knew the stories from the prophets. They believed God was sending them a savior. Through the years, people started to interrupt with ideas of their own of whom the Messiah would be and what he would be like. Because of this a lot of people who were waiting are still waiting. Some have missed it altogether. There were many however who didn’t know and came to believe and have been saved. I believe that we all need to pay close attention to scripture, the real news station, during this advent season. That while we wait, we don’t forget, we don’t become blinded, we don’t miss out on the greatest gift ever given to humankind. That we do find ourselves waiting for the Christ Child. Not getting so overwhelmed with the entrapments of the times and man’s season that we miss out on the REAL GIFT. May this season find you discovering anew the advent season and the birth of our Lord Christ Jesus. May the peace, grace and love of Father Son and Holy Spirit be yours all through the year.
Nettie Covalt
Presbyterian Church
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