Poor , tired and alone...

Poor, tired and alone...

I like reading historical Christian novels...they put me to sleep. Calming my mind at night.   I have read them since I was a teen for the same reason...a part of my nightly routine to get to sleep...

From the "Little house on the prairie " series to modern day novels  or even diaries of people long ago...no mysteries to make my mind try to solve something...just life on the prairie...

Those people were true heroes...they left families in the east, travelled by wagons, went through hardships that make our lives look pretty cushy...most were poor looking for new opportunities, taking few belongings, looking and working for a dream....children were born, some perished, widows and widowers were made, rivers crossed, Indians were met and faced, dust storms, bug storms, deserts, bandits....and much more were faced, plus just the drudgery of day to day dust, dirt and walking....to come to places where they either prospered or didn't....

Now is the season we remember our Savior's birth....I think of his earthly parent's journey ....they were not rich, had few earthly possessions and had to travel to new village, pregnant, dusty, roomless...carrying the King to fulfill a prophecy ...no hospitals, no help or mothers to attend...a dirty animal stable to give birth, wrapping Him in the cheapest of cloths...but loved beyond measure...how He gave up the gloriousness to come to earth is unimaginable ....but sorely needed by us, a sin filled mankind...

thank YOU for  your sacrifice ....that we might go from poor, tired and alone to rich, righteous and never alone...

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

Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.—JOHN 1: 12

And the angel said to them, “Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people.”—LUKE 2: 10 ESV