39 Days until Easter

39 Days until Easter
Jesus is the reason for the season.  In middle school, my Nannie gave me a gold pin that said it and I’d wear it with my Christmas sweaters.  Right now as I look out my bedroom window, I can see the beginnings of blooms and sprouts of green, all the signs that Spring is near.  I have to close my eyes for a second to feel the season of Christmas, but it’s there.
It’s the season lit by candles and twinkling lights.  It’s magical. There’s a joy in the air that’s hard to ignore.  It swirls about leaving deposits on just about everything. And it’s all about a baby boy.  But not just any baby boy. God’s only Son. Immanuel. Messiah. Savior.


I can hear the multitude of the heavenly host singing and I sing too.  The shepherds and wise men came to see You. To worship You. And I worship You too.  A babe who’d become a man. A man without sin, Who’d take on the sins of the entire world.  
I cry out with a great and grand, “Hallelujah!”.  
“And an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were filled with fear.  And the angel said to them, “Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a savior, who is Christ the Lord.  And this will be a sign for you; you will find a baby wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger”. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying,” Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.” - Luke 2: 9-14
When I think about You as a baby, I just want so desperately for You to be held a little tighter, a little longer. Because I know what's to come. I know why You came and I’m sorry that You had to do it, but with everything I have, I call out in praise because You did.  You came for atonement. You came to die to redeem us. Because you loved us and that was the only way.
Jesus is my reason.  


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