"Some times I feel as though God must be a million miles away from me."
It is the thought of a young woman growing up in the confusion of teen age years. It is what the old man is thinking as he sits in the wheel chair of his nursing home when no one ever comes to see him. The nurse who works too many hours seeing more pain and suffering than healing knows the sound of these words. These words are the reality of those who have no hope in life. Or maybe it isn't that they have no hope in life but in the present moment there seems to be very little.
And then he was born.
A little baby born to a very young woman who wasn't even supposed to be pregnant to a man who wasn't supposed to keep her as a wife. The baby is born in a place where babies weren't supposed to be born. Visited by shepherds and magii who were not supposed to be so religious.
A baby is born to tell all of us that God is with us. God is for us. You are not alone and never have been alone. Emmanuel is the Hebrew expression for the Messiah to be born.
In life you may feel alone but the birth of Christ gives you something better than feelings. It offers you the reality that God has come for all the world. God comes again and again in our hearts when we allow Jesus to be born. May Christ be born again for you and for me.
Pray for me as I pray for you.
In the Master's Name,
Dr. M. Jack O'Dell
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