I hope all had a great Thanksgiving holiday! The Davisduo enjoyed time with family and friends, delicious food and made memories. We certainly are a very blessed people! I think of my most cherished blessings each time I can hold a grandchild, look into their eyes, whisper in their ear. What is it about grandchildren? I don’t get to see my Kens(no.3) very often but there is something about the connection, the bond of grandmotherly love, that makes time irrelevant. The moment I see her/she see’s me I feel the love in her heart, see it in her eyes. She is so very beautiful. It is no different with each one of the other girls. Rhilyn is the sweetest little toot! She has this wonderful head of curls and scrunches her nose when she smiles. She is just learning to talk. Soon we will have grandchild number 5! We are all hoping for a boy. Ahh yes! So many blessings!
Speaking of blessings, today was my first Sunday back since my surgery. We had our Church Christmas dinner with Santa Claus. For us Methodists, today is the beginning of Advent. It is the season of the church year that we prepare our hearts and minds for Christ’s coming. It is a time of waiting, listening, of stilling ourselves in preparation for the greatest of all events. Each Sunday the sermon, the whole service, is set around that. We have an advent wreath which consists of 5 candles. Each week a candle is lit by chosen families of the congregation. Families use that particular Sunday to make sure their entire family is in attendance and dressed up for the scripture reading and the lighting. The candles represent Hope, Peace, Joy, Love and then on the Christmas eve service, the Christ candle is lit. It is our tradition that the pastors family lights the first candle, the light of hope.
So now, the season of hope has begun. As I sit here pondering that thought, I am reminded of a dead man’s family in what must be utter grief and confusion. That a man was trampled to his death by people caught up in a moment of despicable and inhumane acts of greed speaks volumns to the degrading condition of the human race.
Every day, turn on the news, open the paper, crime is rampid. Violence of every kind is reported. Tragedy in people’s lives is a common occurrence whether from accident, disease, crime, greed, hate, selfishness, neglect. These are the events, the attitudes that rob us of so much of life’s beauty. From the bliss of the garden to the shame of deceit we have always been dependent upon the grace of our Lord and Savior. It is only He who can rescue us from those moments of hell on earth. It is only He who can give us hope. He is the provider of our many blessings; He is the provider of our hope in a world of chaos. It is He who provides the very one thing we can hold on to. Do you know this to be true in your life?
If people were like earthworms, then maybe they could grasp some of the greatness of Christ.
