CHRISTMAS 2000 AND 8

CHRISTMAS 2000 AND 8 

I love the holidays!  I love Christmas most of all!  It’s fun to see who gets their Christmas lights up first in my neighborhood and as much as I love Christmas it’s never me.  That’s because I have to put my reservation in with my good friend Mike Lyskoski who won’t allow me to put them up by myself.  
In fact I think what made me sit down and write this blog today was also a first and that’s the first rain.   Last night I opened the window all the way and listened to the sound of the pouring rain all night!  It never stopped!   The rain was accompanied with a cold breeze that made me pull the covers up all the way to my face and it was then that I realized there was a change in the season and I just love it!
It makes me think that there is hope and favor and provision for those who love Him and obey Him and are called according to His purposes!  It excites me to think that He loves me enough to come to this earth to save me and provide a way out of my used to be terminal condition!  God is so GOOD!  That’s why I love Christmas.  Because He took me out of a situation where once I were to have realized it I would have had certain uncontrollable panic.  I mean the only way I can illustrate what I am trying to say is paralysis.  Something I know of all to well and still think of often.  When I broke my neck three years ago and felt the sentence of death itself.   I was stricken with a panic that I will never be able to describe with words but when I was set free I wept with JOY!  SET FREE are the words I want to teach this Christmas SET FREE to Give, SET FREE to Love, SET FREE to Live with a new found sense of gratitude for what Christ has done for me!  Yes, I love Christmas.  I hope you have an amazing experience this year too as we celebrate once more the reason for everything that is and will be!  God bless you as we live on the earth together this Christmas in 2000 and 8!  Pastor Bryan