Devotional for December 18

 

God is soaked
in our world.
God's Spirit
lives and breathes
in and through
all that is.
We are lost
only when we
do not understand
that God
is already with
and in each one of us.  
Our task is recognition
of God's initiative
to be at home in us—
acceptance
of God-With-Us.
Then we cannot but
be glad.

Amen.

 

— written by Edwina Gateley in There Was No Path So I Trod One (1996, 2013). Posted on Journey with Jesus. 

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“I don’t think Christmas is necessarily about things. It’s about being good to one another, it’s about the Christian ethic, it’s about kindness.”

 — Carrie Fisher