*waiting...to become child-like

Jesus associates child-like eyes with our ability to see the kingdom of God in our lives and the world around us. On Saturday I invited the kids at ROJ to make Christmas cards to go with the gifts that we are giving to residents of a local teen homeless shelter. I told the ROJ kids that these children will not be spending this Christmas with their moms and dads.

The card below reflects child-like kingdom vision, where the only reason that a child would not be with their parent(s) on Christmas is because they were somehow lost and unable to find their way home.




The hope we share in Christmas is that a lost and broken world, rife with the troubles of tattered personal relationships, shattered dreams, financial worries, disease, death and despair; would find rest and peace in finding her way home through a baby who lies in a manger.