Throughout the year I have been reading a daily devotional, and I am not sure how I managed to mix up the times, either I am too far ahead or way behind, but today I started the Christmas story. It felt really strange at first in the middle of summer to be considering Bethlehem and I almost passed it by and moved on , but then I became conscious that I was seeing it differently.

Maybe there was no tinsel to distract me, but rather than the cutsy Christmas story I was considering how it must have seemed to those present who realised that something was happening after 400 years of silence, after waiting for God's promises for generations.

I tried to imagine what that would be like , because although we talk of Jesus coming again, how much do I really expect it, how surprised would I be if it happened in my lifetime, today, tomorrow?

How would that change what I am doing right now, how I spend my days and where my focus is?

 

"But the angel said to her,"Do not be afraid Mary, you have found favour with God.You will be with child and give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus." from Luke 1 5-52