GOT A MINUTE OR TWO

THE TABLE Living Christ, there is no altar on which to offer sacrifices and no need for them.  THE TABLE displays Your love, and the sacrifice of Your grace is pictured for our hearts to embrace.  Thank You for Your sacrifice.  Thank You for the cross.  Thank You for the crumbs of broken bread that reminds us of Your sufficient supply and for the cup that reminds us forever that You have kept Your promise to redeem us.  Remind us of our frailty and our dependence upon You.  Help us to respond to Your unspeakable gift with worship, love and gratitude and obedience ~~ that our hearts may display the grace You have freely given.  Amen *Bill Crowder ~ The Path of His Passion

While they were there, the days were completed for her to give birth. And she gave birth to her firstborn son; and she wrapped Him in cloths, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn. (Luke 2:6-7) "I am always struck by the simplicity of that description. This remarkable event is so understated, so matter-of-fact, that you could almost miss it if you blinked. So much is left unsaid that you are compelled to read it again ...and again. A veil of silence is pulled over the young woman as she agonizes through childbirth. The shouts of joy are left unrecorded as Joseph, apparently serving as Mary's midwife, delivers the baby and hands Him to His mother." (Above excerpt taken from Windows on Christmas by Bill Crowder) Dear Lord, we will never be able to fully understand the miracle that happened that night...we don't need to know the details in that stable...what is so remarkable, is your gift of salvation on the cross was not veiled i...