Sunday, January 5, 2025 - The Twelfth Day of Christmas
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The Twelve Days of Christmas
On the twelfth day of Christmas
My true love gave me to me
Twelve drummers drumming
Eleven pipers piping
Ten lords a-leaping
Nine ladies dancing
Eight maids a-milking
Seven swans a-swimming
Six geese a-laying
Five golden rings
Four calling birds
Three French hens
Two turtle doves
And a partridge in a pear tree
“In the beginning was The Word, and The Word was with God, and The Word was God. ”
The Word, Heaven and Nature, God's grace, were there at the beginning, there on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, here on the twelfth day of Christmas, in a new year, each new day, forever!
The Gift was given so The Gift would never end. The Promise was given so The Promise would be fulfilled. The wonders of his love came forth, so Grace would always be.
This is the truth about Christmas. This is the truth about Christ. This is the truth about Grace. God's faithfulness, his mercy, his grace is not given only to have it soon be gone. If this were the case, this would not be grace.
On this Twelfth Day of Christmas, keep opening, keep celebrating, keep living, keep believing in each and every gift, in every new and revisited gift, and every newly appreciated gift, and every taken for granted daily gift, and every pushed to the side gift, and every daily miraculous and majestic gift of God's grace, as heaven and nature forever sing!
Let us pray: Christ Child, keep blessing me I pray. Christmas was only twelve days ago, and yet it feels like so long ago. Things are getting put away. Do not let me put you away. By your Holy Spirit, do not allow me to pack away the gifts of your grace. Only by your grace, am I assured heaven and nature are forever singing, for The Word is here and now. Only by your grace, am I assured The Gift will never end, The Promise will be fulfilled, Grace will always be. May every day not simply be another day after Christmas, but another day of Christmas, another day living and believing in the grace of Christ. In Jesus' name, who is now and forever, who is without end, who will forever be, I pray. Amen.
