CHRISTMAS IS FOR HEALING.

"Weep over your city for Christmas and see if your tears will heal it." (luke 19: 41-42)

Loving you, of course I am not interested in how much money you are spending on Christmas gifts this year but rather in how much blood, sweat, and tears you are shedding to make Christ a vital part of your life.
For you and I will never be able to erase the fact that He came –
To touch lives - to break bread-
To heal hurt- to forgive sins- to wash feet-
To calm seas- to walk on water- to give us the Spirit-
And, to care immensely.
Yes, to care enough to be born in our Bethlehem, to live in our land, and to weep over our cities and to die and rise again. So now it’s Christmas and I am not sure what part of you is crippled or where you need to feel God’s saving power but with everything in me I believe that Christmas is for healing. And He came to heal. So, if you can trust Jesus enough to-
Walk out on the waters of getting involved,
Of washing feet and anointing people,
Of breaking bread and working miracles,
I am almost sure His saving presence will touch those blind and crippled parts of your life and Christmas will come to you.
More than anything else I want to give YOU Christmas this year.
It is a gift, an offer. You can take it if you like
But I can’t really give it to you like a wrapped up package. It is deeper than that, it is warmer, brighter, holier. It is more personal. Christmas is more challenging than a wrapped up package.
It is an offer.
It is a mystery.
It is birth.
It is hope.
It is Christmas and
God can never be born enough.

Macrina Weiderkehr