Lo, How A Rose E're Blooming
Lo, how a rose e're blooming, from tender stem hath sprung...
As this year begins to draw to a close, we are reminded that it's not the end..but rather another beginning. Sure, the flowers and trees are not their brightest, but they're just resting. Waiting until it's their turn again to explode with life and color in the spring and summer. Animals have stored away food and bunkered down in their burrows and nests to rest and stay safe from the cold. I have noticed that even we humans still stay true to our natural instincts. We bundle up if we have to go out, stay in if at all possible and I have noticed I have an increased desire to eat and sleep.
Yes, the hard season of winter is upon us, but we are still called to prepare. For even now a Rose is begginning to bloom. In this season of advent we are called upon to prepare ourselves and our lives for the coming Child. We are called upon to recount the longing that Israel had for a Savior, and how that longing still exists in the world today. We are called upon by the prophets of old to be anticipating the birth of the one who would bear the burdens of the world upon his shoulders.
In the harsh, bitter cold of this winter season, let us resists the urge to hibernate. Let us stand anxious, awaiting the arrival of our savior. For even in the dead of winter, a Rose still blooms.
May God keep you this and every night.
Christmas has lost its meaning for us because we have lost the spirit of expectancy. We cannot prepare for an observance. We must prepare for an experience. ~Handel Brown
In the desert prepare the way for the LORD; make straight in the wilderness a highway for our God~ Isaiah 40:3
As this year begins to draw to a close, we are reminded that it's not the end..but rather another beginning. Sure, the flowers and trees are not their brightest, but they're just resting. Waiting until it's their turn again to explode with life and color in the spring and summer. Animals have stored away food and bunkered down in their burrows and nests to rest and stay safe from the cold. I have noticed that even we humans still stay true to our natural instincts. We bundle up if we have to go out, stay in if at all possible and I have noticed I have an increased desire to eat and sleep.
Yes, the hard season of winter is upon us, but we are still called to prepare. For even now a Rose is begginning to bloom. In this season of advent we are called upon to prepare ourselves and our lives for the coming Child. We are called upon to recount the longing that Israel had for a Savior, and how that longing still exists in the world today. We are called upon by the prophets of old to be anticipating the birth of the one who would bear the burdens of the world upon his shoulders.
In the harsh, bitter cold of this winter season, let us resists the urge to hibernate. Let us stand anxious, awaiting the arrival of our savior. For even in the dead of winter, a Rose still blooms.
May God keep you this and every night.
Christmas has lost its meaning for us because we have lost the spirit of expectancy. We cannot prepare for an observance. We must prepare for an experience. ~Handel BrownIn the desert prepare the way for the LORD; make straight in the wilderness a highway for our God~ Isaiah 40:3
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