It is That Time of Year

Merry Christmas to all.


It is a wondrous beautiful time of year.

It is also the time of year where so many want to tell me what I believe, or rather what I do not believe.

My response to those claiming they know what I believe, particularly to those who are not interested in listening to what I truly believe, is to pray. Pray to Jesus and ask him if He knows me and if I know Him.

I anxiously await to hear what He has to reveal to you, from whatever way God speaks to you.

What we do not pray for may be more significant in understanding who we are than what we do pray for.

We pray when we are suffering some pain or injustice, to understand some tragedy, when nothing goes right.

Do we pray over what challenges our beliefs? Do we pray to understand something, that if true, would compel a change to our life: a life we have become so comfortable in?

Can we, especially at this glorious time of year, judge another’s beliefs we know nothing about? Can we say that because someone does not believe like oneself that they had not come to their faith through a deep and profound search for God? Can we not respect that? Can we claim we know another’s life better than they know their own?

Certainly, you cannot say any of the above, if at all, without deep and sincere prayer.

But what do we really pray for?

I find it curious, considering I do believe deeply in Jesus, that this accusation is leveled at this time of year, Christmas, rather than at Easter.

Is it difficult, does it rub one’s conscience the wrong way, to claim on Easter that some one who believes Jesus did not come to die, but rather that his death was a preset fallback plan if the people should prove faithless, to claim that a person who believes such does not know, or believe in Jesus?

We all need to pray. We need to pray in the good times as well as the bad. We need prayer in all things.

We need to pray to find and support God and we need to pray for each other.

This is a time for all humankind to celebrate and we should exclude no one. It is a joyous time of year acknowledging God’s great promise to all men. Let us all celebrate together.


Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

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