Advent

Christmas, the birth of our Savior is in one week.  I have trouble getting into the Christmas spirit.   That is nothing new...I have always had a hard time with the Christmas/Advent spirit ...pretending that Jesus is coming... ( He is already here.)  I've always said that I'm an Easter person.  (and Lent I 'get' and can even follow a Lenten discipline)

I bring this up because  I just returned home from a funeral.  Another girlfriend's husband died, from cancer, at the young age of 64.  This may sound strange, but I love funeral services.  It gives me time to focus on our next big adventure...Heaven.  I love the hymns far more than I love Christmas hymns. 

For me today, it was Beautiful Savior, that brought tears to my eyes.

Beautiful Savior, King of creation

Son of God and Son of Man!

Truly I'd love Thee, Truly I'd serve thee.

Light of my soul, my joy, my crown.

Fair are the meadows, Fair are the woodlands,

Robed in flow'rs of blooming spring,

Jesus is fairer, Jesus is purer

He makes our sorrowing spirit sing.

Fair is the sunshine, Fair is the moonlight,

Bright the sparkling stars on high;

Jesus shines brighter, Jesus shines purer

Than all the angels in the sky.

Beautiful Savior, Lord of the nations,

Son of God and son of Man!

Glory and honor, Praise, adoration,

Now and forevermore, be Thine.

Yes, it was great that Jesus was born.  But it was in His dying that He atoned for our sins, and it was in His Resurrection that we are able to be born again into eternal life.   And knowing this fills our lives with abundant grace and peace.....