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| Gari Melchers |
Maybe sometimes miracles have very unprepossessing starts. Not every answer to prayer comes with an angel bursting through the door playing "In The Mood" on his trumpet. Sometimes we have to screw our eyes up a bit to see exactly what this seed can become. Like the tiny cloud, the size of a fist, when what the people need is a huge deluge of rain. Sometimes we have to nurture the answer, which comes quietly and without fanfare and believe that this is God, starting to answer our prayers. Seeing with the eyes of faith I think they used to call it. God may be sending us the answer we need already, we need to respond to his prompting and ask and see if he wants us to do anything to develop his miracle in our lives. Mary and Joseph had to do it. Out of a very unpromising start came the miracle they had been promised. But it must have looked very dark there for a while - even when things had started to move.
This is my last part of A Pause in Advent. There are some great blogs out there about Advent. Always a blessing - never a chore. Please feel free to link in and take a look
Thanks for some great Advent Pauses - I love the picture of Mary, utterly exhausted. My [very pregnant] daughter said last week, that for the first time, she really understood what it must have been like for Mary - and that at least SHE had London buses to travel on, not a donkey! Trying very hard not to be so busy that I miss the quiet beginning of great miracles. Christmas Blessings to you and yours - thanks for sharing in the PinA posts!! xx
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This is brilliant! Yes, you really have got to it there! It is in these quiet moments. Though the thought of an Angel playing in the mood makes me smile!x
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