From the Heart by B.Demaere

Do you ever feel you are running out of options as to where you must go or do? I felt like that this last week and then the Lord showed me what I was supposed to do.   Obey him! He is so loving.   His way in my life was to simply put a wall at the front of me and I would get frustrated until I knew what he wanted. I have that feeling also that the world is running out of options when God says this: “Consult together, argue your case. Get together and decide what to say. Who made these things known so long ago? What idol ever told you they would happen? Was it not I, the Lord? For there is no other God but me, A righteous God and Savior. There is none but me. Let all the world look to me for salvation! For I am God; there is no other. I have sworn by my own name; I have spoken the truth, And I will never go back on my word: Every knee will bend to me, And every tongue will declare allegiance to me. The people will declare, The Lord is the...

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 e...