Wonder is a sense of awe or adoration
Oh to be like a child with anticipation
Waiting to open gifts Christmas morn
Instead society today is often so forlorn
Christmas is all about a season of wonder
Tiny babe came down from heaven yonder
Born to a young teenage virgin and carpenter
Jesus who came to give His life as our Savior
Join me in experiencing this wonder anew
As we prepare to celebrate His birthday too
By insights gained through advent message
On heaven’s song from Luke 1-2 passage
First is the true reality of the Christmas story
Luke one begins with eyewitness testimony
Second God exalting the faithful and lowly
Mary, shepherds, Jesus’ example of humility
Third it is a story characterized by intimacy
Each relationship with comfort in humanity
Fourth it is a story of great joy people heard
Angelic pronouncements to those appeared
True wonder begins in the presence of God
His presence brings joy in this life we trod
This joy and wonder I have been reflecting
By advent devotional an excerpt following
Here are some other practical steps and ways
In the final week countdown to Christmas Day
Relive the story and wonder in every detail
Celebrate in God’s presence and joy entailed
In the midst of trials and difficulties of life
When daily pressures cause toil and strife
Trade wondering why for wonder of the wise
Let brokenness lead to connectedness in Jesus
Have a blessed and wonder-filled Christmas and a joyous New Year!
Day 17 – Excerpt from Joy! To Your World! A Countdown to Christmas
Provided to www.youversion.com by Carol McLeod and Just Joy Ministries.
For more information, please visit www.justjoyministries.com
All copyright credits given as indicated.
Read Luke 1:13-14 and Psalm 148
David Taylor came home from school sad and discouraged one day in early November.
With tears rolling down his freckled cheeks, he told his mother that his teacher told him
that he couldn’t sing in the Christmas program.
“She said that I am awful and that I sing too loud,” David explained between sobs.
David’s father was sitting in the living room reading the afternoon’s paper and
overheard his son’s heartbreak. Mr. Taylor was indignant and furious. How could
any teacher do this to a child?
Mr. Taylor decided to help his son learn how to sing. After dinner that night, he
took David into the living room and had him stand beside the family piano. Mr. Taylor
began to play the familiar melody of “It Came Upon a Midnight Clear”. As David
opened his mouth, a cat-like screech came out.
“David, part of singing is listening. Listen ... then sing,” instructed the patient father.
David’s second attempt was worse than his first! But when the father was tempted
to give up, he thought of the unfeeling teacher and realized, “If a father doesn’t do
this, who will?”
The days of November faded into December, while Mr. Taylor and David spent every
evening at the piano going over and over and over the melody to the song. “Peace on
the earth good will to men ...”
When the day came that David sang for his teacher, she said that he could be in the
program! David was front and center in the third-grade Christmas concert. He was
angelic and on pitch as the song ended with the glorious thought, “The world in solemn
stillness lay to hear the angels sing!”
On Christmas Eve, Mr. Taylor looked out the window and saw his pajama-clad boy
in the front yard looking toward the sky.
The father quietly walked out the front door and put his arms around David without
saying a word. The son leaned into his father’s chest and said, “The world is lying still,
Dad. Just like the song says.”
“Do you hear them, Dad? Do you hear the angels singing? I hear them ... do you, Dad?
The father thought that he was teaching a little boy to sing a sweet song at
Christmastime, but what had really happened was that the little boy had taught
them both to listen ... to listen for the angel’s song.
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