“The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet
like me from among you, from your fellow Israelites.
You must listen to him.”
-Deuteronomy 18:15

A Time to Think… “Advent: the time to listen for footsteps – you can’t hear footsteps when you’re running yourself.” ―Bill McKibben, American environmentalist, author, and journalist

 A Time to Act… STOP running around right now! Put on the brakes of crazy Christmas giving, expectations, meals, family problems, etc. Running yourself into the ground will not make any gift better! Instead, it will pull you away from the real gift which is Jesus Christ.

 A Time to Pray… God give me strength in my mind and heart that I may keep Christmas what it truly is—the gift of your Son, our Jesus Redeemer. Give me the fortitude to run from worldly ideas and rest in you, for it is there that the true meaning of Christmas makes all the difference in my life, AMEN.