This time of the year seems so busy.  As a matter of fact, the time between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day is often little more than a blur.

Busy schedules and holiday routines need not, indeed must not, hide the blessedness of this sacred time.   The ancient message of the good news of Jesus and the coming kingdom once again resounds in the singing and preaching of the Church.  Emmanuel (God with us) is the ever-new story of the God who is eternally present.  Neither the quickly passing years, nor the slowly evolving centuries can render the eternal God irrelevant.  The song of the angels heard by the sleepless shepherds was sung for us, too.  It was and remains a song of rejoicing.

In spite of the busyness and the chaos of this season let us rejoice in its meaning to us.  God is here, and where God is there is hope, and where there is hope there is rejoicing.

May God, the Eternal One, our Savior and Strength, be especially near during this sacred season.

Grace and peace,

David