This Christmas Eve ….it is clear and cold. The stars are as bright as they were some 2000 years ago or so I imagine…
As I sit on the front porch and listen to the sheep… they quietly go about their business of grazing. The quietness of the night is occasionally broken by a soft bah bah of a young lamb and the tinkling of the bells seem to keep time with the stars as they shine and flicker in the night time sky.
In my mind I see a group of shepherds on some far away hills in Judea. Doing their job. A hard job… Away from their families and loved ones. Watching over their flock in the stillness and quiet of the night. It had to be hard to be outside and all the unknowns that lurked in the wilderness…
All of a sudden! They are shocked by an Angel of the Lord! Announcing Good News Of Great JOY! Which shall be to All People! I can see the brightness the suddenness the surprise the shock the fear on the Shepherd’s faces. It had to have been the most amazing thing they had ever witnessed…
It made an impression on these simple men…But they believed what they saw and were told…So they said “Let us now go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has come to pass which the Lord hath made known unto us!” they went and found it all just as the angel had said it would be. They saw what they had believed! Then returned to their work, glorified and praised God and told everyone about what had happened to them!
My heart is full… and no words to express it with…
Merry Christmas!
From Maple Grove Farm
Kay, Les, Montanna, Abilene, Amarillo, Drover, BOO, Timber, Tuff, and all the sheep!
