Today is Monday, November 28th, 2005; Karen's Korner #681
Yesterday our three-month-old granddaughter Molly was baptized at the West Des Moines United Methodist Church. The sanctuary was decorated for Christmas. As I sat down, I noticed several silver 12" - 14" stars with black letters on them hanging at the front of the auditorium. There was an H and an O; a bit of a space and then an E. I looked around; maybe there were other letters to make up NOEL or JOY or what? I didn't know. Those three letters were the only ones I saw.
As the worship began, the Advent candle was lit, and the songs were sung; I got it: our first Sunday of the Christmas season was about HOPE. The P must have fallen down (as we got up to leave, I noticed that the P had simply turned 1/2 a turn, I just couldn't read it).
As the service continued, I thought of how important just one letter was to make up the message. No P; no HOPE!
And then I thought about each of us this Christmas season. We might be only one letter in a word; or one word in a sentence to others. But we are mportant just the same, as we help someone else know, or remember, the story of Jesus birth, life, death, and resurrection so that we may find and enjoy life now and into eternity.
We might be only the letter P in someone else's Christmas HOPE!
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