We do much work to make the nativity scene look so pretty this season.
Lovely figurines, decorative stables, persons arranged just-so.
The reality is that birth of baby Jesus was dirty & smelly. In the
worst possible circumstances. Crowded Bethlehem would have meant
crowded barns. More animals than normal squeezed into the stalls.
Beautiful, lovely, holy Jesus' birth took place among the animal dung.
Perhaps this is why I find myself so broken this Advent Season.
Beautiful, lovely, holy Jesus wants to live in the dirty, broken places of my life.
So much of my life is hidden away. Sure, I arrange all the pieces so artfully here in this place. Sharing the happy, decorating this blog with snippets of things that are good.
The reality is that I struggle with broken relationships. I nurse old wounds. I am impatient.
I gossip. I am judgemental & critical. My life is full of dung.
Emmanuel. God with us.
As the birth of baby Jesus transformed a barn into a place of beauty;
Please, transform my heart too.
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