Crazy days. Crazy illnesses, crazy injuries. Crazy times with students. Crazy plans to keep up with. Crazy lots to get done. Crazy excitement ahead. Everything is crazy these days. Has anyone else hit that point yet? Regardless of the careful planning ahead, Christmas always seem to come with craziness.
It must have during the first Christmas, too. Our peaceful nativity scenes don’t reflect it, but…
I can’t imagine that Mary wasn’t going a little nuts while entering labor AND searching for a place to stay or being hunkered down in a barn. A city so full that there was no room at the inn doesn’t sound peaceful or quiet. The King plotting to kill Jesus from the time he heard of His birth certainly sounds a little mad.
Praise the Lord that He is the calm!
That little baby we celebrate knew the perfect peace of God better than any of us have ever been able to fathom. His life reflected that though His circumstances rarely did.
“He stilled the storm to a whisper; the waves of the sea were hushed.
They were glad when it grew calm, and he guided them to their desired haven.
Let them give thanks to the Lord for his unfailing love and his wonderful deeds for mankind.
Let them exalt him in the assembly of the people and praise him in the council of the elders.”
–Psalm 107
In all of the storms and throngs of angry people and lists of material things piling high, the Lord is and was constant, calm, and able to hold it all together. All that He holds together is His, after all.
Even angry, flipping tables, Jesus could still calmly and ultra-wisely answer His accusers. When they seized Him to kill Him, He calmly healed a soldier’s ear and spoke calm over His disciples.
That sort of calms knows no bounds except for the will of God. His calm is the sort of calm we need every Christmas, and every day.
Behold, the one to whom we can go when we need calm.
Behold, the calm who keeps that which would overwhelm at bay.
Behold, the reason for the calm at all: God’s Will is so good that the trouble is worth the calm that always comes anyway.
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So grateful for His Presence in our lives which brings peace to every situation. May you & your family have a blessed Christmas!