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PASTOR’S PONDERINGS

Yikes! It’s less than four weeks until Christmas! Are YOU asking yourself where the year went? You are not alone!

And this year is no different than any other, with gift shopping incomplete. Christmas cards yet to be started, decorating and baking barely begun. Where, in all of this mayhem, does the true meaning and feeling of the Holy Child’s birth lie?

Needless to say, 2011’s lead-in to the holidays has been unusual for me! Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays, and this year was outstanding, yet different. The anticipation, excitement and preparation of Advent are altered in my head, heart, and mind as my involvement in activities at FUPC are curtailed.

I miss you all, and mostly I miss leading you in and experiencing worship.

I’m imagining the beautiful decorations all over the property, the junior high’s doing the Advent candle lighting, preparations for Christmas programs, LOGOS caroling, sermons for the themes of Advent and my amazement at your “stepping up” and increasing your involvement in mission and ministry fills me up. :)

In a recent e-conversation with a good friend, she summed up the huge possibilities for our FUPC faith family in words more poignant than I could muster: “Yesterday I realized that this may be the first Christmas we really get a feel as a congregation for what it felt like to be Joseph and Mary – confused, bewildered, hopeful, concerned, happily anxious and occasionally overcome with the wonder and ‘miraculousness’ of the season, all at the same time.”

Believe it, folks. Feel it. Revel in it. God has given us this gift; celebrate! Enjoy. This IS what it’s all about. In the peace of the Prince of Peace, God’s blessings be upon you. ~ Rev. Kristie