“Neither did I regret my yes”
Christmas is for you, too
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“She did not regret her yes regardless of the pain she must have felt watching Him grow and letting Him go. Neither did I regret my yes as I watched my own three children grow and I began the process of slowly letting them go.”
Tasha Jun’s prayer reminds us that Christmas is for us, too:
Christmas is for you
the lowly and the lonely
the lost, limp, and lifeless ones
the ones who've come undone
the empty tombs
waiting to be filled
with the advent of Life
Here are 3 ways to keep praying through the Christmas season—simple tips for you and your children, including:
Sit in front of your Christmas decorations for a few minutes (the tree, the Nativity scene, or whatever reminds you of Christmas in your home). Let yourself breathe in the quiet after a busy week. Let this time be prayer enough.
From the archives
The Day After The First Christmas: “Here they are, only a day from the strangest night. Angels and shepherds and songs and strangers—everything foreign and far from what their familiar lives had known as truth. Here they are, together and alone. Starting parenthood smack dab in the middle of salvation history.”
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A final word for reflection
When the song of the angels is stilled,
when the star in the sky is gone,
when the kings and princes are home,
when the shepherds are back with their flock,
the work of Christmas begins:
to find the lost,
to heal the broken,
to feed the hungry,
to release the prisoner,
to rebuild the nations,
to bring peace among others,
to make music in the heart.
(from Howard Thurman’s The Mood of Christmas and Other Celebrations)
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