ANTICIPATING BETHLEHEM

We went to visit our family yesterday - they live just outside the city of Birmingham. With only a month to go to Christmas the grandchildren were already excited and there was that lovely atmosphere of expectation in the air. I love it!
We decided to leave early in the morning so we could go to a church in Dudley led by Trevor and Sharon Baker. They have been deeply impacted by all that has happened in Toronto and have become a place that knows how to value, host and give away the presence of God. Whenever we visit it's like coming home and we always get blessed.
There are some remarkable places and people that have a touch of Bethlehem about them. Places and people that in human terms seem quite small, hidden and insignificant. But they are places and people chosen by God to demonstrate that he uses the weak, the foolish, the insignificant in worldly estimation to do some of his most powerful work. As I write this blog I am reminded of the words of the humble Shepherds on that hillside in Bethlehem after they had actually seen and heard the angels! “Let’s get over to Bethlehem as fast as we can and see for ourselves what God has revealed to us.” I guess that's a little of why Mo and I have been led to visit some of our 'Bethlehem' places over the past 15 years.
HAVE A GREAT WEEK ANTICIPATING BETHLEHEM.