I was in tearing up in the car last weekend, listening to a bagpipe - sounding song on the radio about Christ coming to earth. "Savior's Day" is sung by Sheila Walsh (written by Chris Eaton). I've now downloaded it (thanks to Jeff & Deanna's great gift certificate with I-Tunes!!).

It say's we're WAITING for this Day! I know, we hear it preached every Christmas, but it hit me afresh. What if, in the strategic days of a Roman- ruled world, & years of Rabbinic ritualism, God had not come as a baby? The society was waiting for something different. The Jews were waiting for a Messiah, a deliverer. The oppressed were dying for peace of mind. The potential of generations being saved or lost hung in the balance. And what must the "Powers that be" in the heavenly realm (I mean the demonic one!) have been worried about, to have killed thousands of babies (through Herod's decree) in an attempt to thwart this happening!

The Saviour came. Outstanding!

P.S. Above is the little plastic tree at my parents' home, surrounded with pretty, lit-up houses given to Mom over the years, in a Snow Village collection (for the record, she said a couple of years ago, "That's enough." So no more forthcoming.) But the first one she got was an Apothecary (Apotheke) which reminds us of the red brick building she still owns, where her dad had his own pharmacy in downtown Hartford, Ky.

Here she is at our home church's candlelight service on Christmas Eve (Heilige Abend). The finale-- everyone stood up & circled around the entire inside of the church with their lit candles & sang (traditionally) "Silent Night."