A very apt and meaningful poem by Rebekah Tempest to keep our focus right this Christmas season.

Enticed by love
They came to see God
In human frailty,
A newborn babe
At purest birth
Delivered, squirming
To the earth.
This promised Child
Clutched in His hand
Salvation
Sent at God’s command.
But with salvation
Death was brought,
And pain and suffering too,
Were caught entangled
In His tiny palm;
Flailed silently
Into the calm
Of night that held
So innocently,
The Man
Who’d set His people free.

Dear sisters, this Christmas, if we look beyond the crib in Bethlehem, to the cross in Calvary; We will know the reason why Christmas brings such joy to you and me. Let us continue to ring out the good news of “peace on earth and good will toward man” in this season of celebration!