Christmas

Six years ago tonight, you would have found my wife and I spending Christmas eve under the watchful eye of hospital staff.

You see, at that time Angela was pregnant with our first child. She had had a textbook perfect pregnancy up until Dec 23, when she noticed baby wasn’t moving much. So we ended up spending Christmas eve in the hospital then. That was 2002.

Here we are in 2008, and we find ourselves again spending Christmas eve in the hospital. Ethan, our firstborn was running a scary temperature of 105.5 so we rushed him to the ER. I am writing this from his room in the ER as we await the results of his labs.

But now that his fever is under control, my thoughts turn to my brothers and sisters who live in less developed countries. I think how terrifying it must be to have a child suffering in the same way mine was today, but without the wonders of acetominophen or ibuprophen or a thermometer, thermostat, ice, running water….

I wonder how much
The majority of “Christians” truly care. Are we not supposed to give even the clothes we are wearing to one who asks?

It is my hope that a revolution occurs in the body of Christ; that we become no longer content to go to church, but become set instead on being the bride of the Servant King–equally yoked in his heart of service to humanity.

I encourage you to give time or money to a ministry that God Himself would define as undefiled religion. For me personally, I find such a ministry in http://irismin.org

BEDO. Be the body. Do his will.

Merry Christmas