CONVEYING THE EXCITEMENT OF CHRISTMAS!

CONVEYING THE EXCITEMENT OF CHRISTMAS!
Can you feel
The EXCITEMENT?
CHRISTMAS excitement in
The AIR!
Listening to music=buying
Last minute gifts=maybe even
Baking some COOKIES
There is ELECTRICITY in
The air=and we will be
VISITING FAMILY=or at least
TALKING to them by telephone
"BLESSED are you........"                                                                                             Luke 1:45
The DIVINE ENCOUNTERS
Of Mary and Elizabeth
The divine encounters
We have this CHRISTMAS SEASON
With our family and friends
Conveying the EXCITEMENT
OF CHRISTMAS!
Conveying the excitement
Of just BEING
WITH ONE ANOTHER
Feeling the excitement
FEELING THE JOY
OF CHRISTMAS!
"You make known to me
The path of life
You will fill me
With JOY
In your presence
With eternal pleasures
At your right hand"                                                                                             Psalm 16:11
"The father
Of a righteous child
Has great JOY
A man who fathers
A wise son
REJOICES in him"                                                                                                Proverbs 23:24
"And the disciples
Were FILLED WITH JOY
And with the HOLY SPIRIT!"                                                                                 Acts 13:52
Divine encounters=this Christmas
CONVEYING the excitement
Of CHRISTMAS this year
To our families
To our friends
There is anticipation and preparation
In the old
As Elizabeth and Mary meet
Elizabeth RECOGNIZES Mary's sanctity
In Mary's UNEXPECTED VISIT
And there is SANCTITY
In EVERY visit/every encounter/
Every CONVERSATION with relative-
Friend-and neighbor THIS CHRISTMAS
The divine encounter
The SACREDNESS of
Our CHRISTMAS VISITS this year
"And God said=
'Let thers be light
In the vault
Of the sky
To separate the day
From the night
And let them serve
As signs
To mark SACRED TIMES
And days and years........."                                                                               Genesis 1:14
This Christmas=
Let us CONVEY=WITH EXCITEMENT
The CHRISTMAS SPIRIT
Let us convey that SAME WARMTH
That Elizabeth had for Mary
CONVEYING THE EXCITEMENT=
OF CHRISTMAS IN OUR HEARTS!
In Jesus' name and in the name of HIS dear FATHER UP ABOVE
Robert P. Wallman
12-22-18

Ps         INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Sr. Bridget Haase, O.S.U.