SET ASIDE A FEW MOMENTS=TO PRAY

 

 

 

 

 

 

SET ASIDE=A FEW MOMENTS=TO PRAY!

 

PROBABLY=for the LAST few weeks=If not months=We have been=SETTING

EXTRA TIME aside=to Prepare FOR CHRISTMAS=PREPARING for Christmas=Getting

Those last few Shopping items for Christmas=Putting up decorations=Preparing

Meals=Making travel plans=But how MANY of us=Have been setting TIME ASIDE=

For Jesus=This Christmas=THE NEWBORN Jesus=and the HOLY FAMILY!=”Blessed

Be the Lord=……..He has COME to his people…….”                                                              Luke 1:68

 

IN the busyness=Of our every day lives=It is easy TO MISS=The PONT of Christmas=

 

And that is=Our SAVIOR the Christ Child=The GOD of love=and LIFE=ENTERING THE
WORLD=as a human being=YET being God himself=SET aside a few MOMENTS=TODAY to

Prepare=For the Father and Jesus=Don’t miss the INTEGRAL PONT=Of your life=Of

Your salvation=”Woe to you=Teachers of the law=and Pharisees=and hypocrites=You

Give a tenth of your spices--------mint=dill=and cumin=But you have neglected=The

MORE IMPORTANT matters of the law=Justice=mercy=and faithfulness”                           Matthew 23:23

“The MOST IMPORTANT ONE’=Answered Jesus=’is this=’Hear Oh Israel=The Lord our God=

The Lord is one=Love the Lord your Go=With all your heart=and with all your soul=and

With all your  mind=and with ALL your strength’”                                                                       Mark 12:29-30

 

Christmas is  just=A few days away=What is MOST IMPORTANT=In your life=Right now?=

It should be=To SET ASIDE=A FEW MOMENTS=To PRAY=and to PREPARE=for Christmas=

For the Christ CHILD=EMMANUEL=GOD IS WITH US!

 

So FIND a quiet place=TO PRAY=to sit down=and QUIET your mind and your SOUL=and

THANK Jesus=For coming into your life-with a few moments=OF PRAYER=GIVE him a few

MOMENTS=of your time=This is THE MOST important thing you=Can do right now=

“……..That the mirth=Of the wicked=Is brief=The joy of=the godless lasts=BUT A MOMENT”   Job 20:5

“For his anger=Lasts only A MOMENT==But his favor lasts a lifetime=Weeping may stay for=

The night=But REJOICING comes in the morning”                                                                                Psalm 30:5

“We did not give in=To them for A MOMENT=So that the truth of the gospel=Might be

Preserved  for you”                                                                                                                                            Galatians 2:5

 

Don’t LOSE SIGHT =of the fact=That Jesus Christ=Was born in=A STABLE=just for you=

REMEMBER=what he did for you=that very FIST CHRISTMAS=and What he=CONTINUES to=

Do for us=Every moment=OF OUR LIVES=That is how IMPORTANT =You are to him==WELCOME

Jesus=and his LOVING FATHER=into the STABLE of your heart

“For what I received=I passed on to you=AS OF FIRST IMPORTANCE=That Christ died for=

Our sins=According to the Scriptures…….”                                                                          1 Corinthians 15:3”

“But what does it matter?=The IMPORTANG THING IS==That in every way=Whether from

False motives or true=Christ is PREACHED=And because of this=I Rejoice”    Philippians 1:18

 

Dear Lord=My sisters and brothers and I=OPEN our hearts to you=THIS CHRISTMAS=Help

Us to REMEMBER=Every  DAY of our lives-to SET ASIDE SOME TIME for you daily=and the God

Of us ALL!

 

HOPE YOU ALL had a BLESED CHISTMAS=God and=HIS SON LOVE YOU=and so do I=In Jesus’

Name!

 

Robert P. Wallman

At MARY’S=12-23-2025

 

Ps        INSPIRED by an article=IN LIVING FAITH MAGAINE by Msgr. Stephen J. Rossetti