Thank YOU....

good morning. Lord, thank YOU....

Today we celebrate the newborn King..

With gifts of love we bring...

Our hearts, our souls, our minds...

We give to you with all of time...

Humble, thoughtful Mary...

Obedient, rejoicing, she did not tarry...

Listening Joseph, man of integrity ...

Providing care and earthly fatherhood...

YOU came to earth to save us all....

Providing peace for our souls after the Adams fall...

Our one provision for eternal life....

After earth's final strife...

Help us in faith, obedience, rejoicing...

To follow YOU in love, care and peace...

Luke 2:11, 14, 19-20 Luke 1:32-33 Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord. “Glory to God in the highest heaven,and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.” But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart. The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, which were just as they had been told. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over Jacob’s descendants forever; his kingdom will never end.” 

Thank YOU for this day..this gift...this life...

Jesus calling-December 25

As you wait attentively in My Presence, the Light of the knowledge of My Glory shines upon you. This radiant knowledge transcends all understanding. It transforms every fiber of your being: renewing your mind, cleansing your heart, invigorating your body. Open yourself fully to My Presence; be awed by My glorious Being.

Try to imagine what I gave up when I came into your world as a baby. I set aside My Glory, so that I could identify with mankind. I accepted the limitations of infancy under the most appalling conditions—a filthy stable. That was a dark night for Me, even though angels lit up the sky proclaiming “Glory!” to awe-struck shepherds.

When you sit quietly with Me, the process I went through is reversed in your experience. As you identify with Me, heaven’s vistas open up before you—granting you glimpses of My Glory. I became poor so that you might become rich. Sing hallelujahs to My holy Name!

For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.
—2 Corinthians 4:6
Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.
—Philippians 2:6–7
Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whom his favor rests.”
—Luke 2:13–14

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich.
—2 Corinthians 8:9