January

Dear friends,

I pray and study the scripture. I pray and I write a sermon. I go over the sermon and basically preach it to myself a couple of times on Saturday. Saturday night I preach to the casual service and then twice on Sunday.

With all that I still don't know what will happen. How emotion or
God's Holy Spirit will be at work. Some sermons are more difficult
for me than others.

I thank you for your loving patience with me. December brings joy
and sorrow for most all of us. We love the memories of past
Christmases. Those memories cause us to laugh out loud and
sometimes weep.

There is something magical and mysterious about Christmas at Bon Air Christian Church. It never fails to touch my heart the wonder and beauty of celebrating the birth of our Lord with this community of faith. No matter how difficult our circumstances or how imperfect our lives, Christ comes.

Christ comes to the broken. Christ comes to the poor in spirit. Christ comes to those who are wounded and fragile and who stand in need of God's healing love.

The baby child is born among us and he is the one who brings light even to those who sit in darkness.

There is no darkness so deep that God's light cannot penetrate it.

Believe. Believe. Believe.

Shalom,

Cindy