Triple C News - Dec. 23

Hey, everyone!

Wow! It’s almost here! Remember how excited you used to be when you were a kid?!

I didn’t even know much about Jesus when I was little but I used to pray in my bed every night and say, “Dear God, it’s only nine more days until Christmas…” (like He doesn’t know!)

And I had no idea how Santa fit into the whole thing theologically! 

(Apparently he sees you when you’re sleeping and knows stuff about you, good and bad, that you’re trying to figure out yourself!)

Christmas really is for kids! On the other hand…

A young girl…maybe 12 or 13…didn’t even blink about it…

or need to think about it…

when an angel offered to her an opportunity to be misunderstood and maligned if she would say “Yes!” to God…

A boy…maybe 13 or 14…never uttered one word of complaint when his plans of a quiet and peaceful domesticity evaporated in the swirling whirl of God’s dizzying redemptive invasion of the planet.

And they were just kids! Christmas is for kids…

And brought to you…BY kids!

Kids with a brave and simple faith.

In “A Christmas Carol”, Bob Cratchit’s Tiny Tim must have been about nine or so…

With a disability…And a brave and simple faith

“And how did little Tim behave?” asked Mrs Cratchit…

“As good as gold,” said Bob, “and better. Somehow he gets thoughtful sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see.” 

Jesus said to enter into the Kingdom of God, you have to change and become like a child (Gospel of Matthew 18.3)

Maybe He meant, like them, you’re weak and needy.

Or maybe He meant, like them, your faith is simple and brave…

Christmas is for kids.

And…Brought to you BY kids!

Give yourself a present this Christmas!

Be one!

Merry Christmas, y’all!!

“God bless us, everyone!”