Dear Friends,
This Sunday will be a very full day. If you are planning to come to either our regular Sunday morning service for the fourth Sunday of Advent or to our Christmas Eve service, this is a good time to invite family members and friends. The “good news of great joy for all people” is meant to be shared.
So be an angel messenger… invite someone to church!
Our morning service will focus on the story of Joseph and his courage to listen to God’s dream and stand with Mary. During the evening service we will sing carols, meditate on the relevance of the Christmas story for our lives, and listen to our own (angelic?!) chancel choir.
Whether we see you this Sunday or you are already traveling to be with family, I want to take a moment to go beyond wishing you simply a “merry Christmas” and instead let you know that I am praying you will experience one or more of the life-changing gifts bestowed on the first Christmas:
a sense of hope in the midst of whatever weariness or despair may be gripping you,
a sense of peace amid whatever struggles you are enduring,
a sense of joy touching that place of deep sorrow,
and, lastly, a deep sense of how beloved you are.
May these be the gifts you wrap around you this Christmas.
Many Blessings,
Rev. Laura
