Run

Mt. Baker was showing off when I went running with my sister-in-law Tracey this morning. 

sunshine in Anacortes 

And they came with haste and found Mary and Joseph and the babe lying in a manger. 

Luke 2:16

I read the following passage this morning from a book called Preparing for Jesus by Walt Wangerin, and it was the perfect prompting to pray for you today: 

"We are the shepherds who run: from the fields to the stable, from the night to the morning, from our labors to the Lord. We are the ones who run this year, too, as in every year past: 

From toil and our daily chores, we run to the comfort of Bethlehem. 

From our obligations and responsibilities, we run to the strength of Emmanuel: God's strong arm among us. 

From our fears of loss and instability, from the anguish of troubled finances, from poverty we run to the treasure that will not tarnish nor ever diminish, the baby's eyes like coins in our purse, the baby's eyes eternal. 

From our obscurity; from the darkness in which we live our lives, unacknowledged, inglorious; from our truer condition as 'no one, people that are not" we run to the Son of God who knows each of our names, and who will call us by our names, and whose very call will empower us to follow. 

From sorrow, we run to joy. 

From hatred, we run to love. 

From antagonisms, we run to peace. 

From sickness, we run to the healer. 

From sin we run to the Savior. 

From death we run to life." 

Hannah, may you run to God today with everything you've got....