The sun set hours ago. As you drive closer to your house, the number of homes decorated for Christmas appears to grow daily. Finally, your car automatically pulls into your own driveway. Exhausted, you step out with your arms heavy with bags. You manage only a few steps when a burst of white light appears above the housetops. Instantly you recognize this star. It is the star of Bethlehem. The star of the newborn King.
Quickly, you place your bags inside and fall to your knees. You take a deep breath in. Before you exhale, you let the warmth of God's Presence overflow from your heart, expanding the volume of your lungs with oxygenated joy. Then, in the silence of this moment, the call comes.
"And this will be a sign for you: you will find an infant wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger."
You reply, "Lord let me see what you have made known to me."
Inwardly you hear, "Prepare yourself, and you shall see the glory of the Lord. On bended knee is a good place to start."
-Susan
(The Invitation is based on the Gospel of Luke.)
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