A Child is to be Born
We have some exciting news coming in our family. My wife and I will have a new grandchild who will be born either at or after Christmas day. The date is December 27 or earlier. I cannot imagine what the atmosphere would have felt like in Mary and Joseph’s family when baby Jesus was about to be born. We have a glimpse in the Gospel according to Luke after his birth. Life must have been very different after his birth as it will be for our daughter and my son-in-law. A baby has somehow a way to bring newness of life into the home. It got the Magi on the move. It got Herod worried about his kingdom and he wanted to kill him along hundreds of other children 2 years old and under. Just think, that every time a baby is born a whole household change. Each one of us carry around an ‘influence’ ready to potentially turn the world upside down. But why does it not always happen this way> When even one of us make a change in our life, our entire family could be changed and