What CHILD+ is This?

...Whom+ angels greet with anthems sweet...

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Advent Meditation #3

2010

How do we "greet" Our LORD and SAVIOR every day?

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Do we, with GREAT joy, lift our faces up to HIM+ as we arise?

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Do we, with glorious anticipation of what HE+ will accomplish in our hearts, meet HIM+ in the morning?

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Do we, with hearts over-flowing with thanksgiving, bow before HIM+ in worship, as HE+ gives us our very breath, thought, energy, and enabling grace to work in HIS+ camp with every passing moment of this day?

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Are our hearts filled with anthems sweet as we pick up our cross and die daily to our Self... so that HE+ will rule and REIGN in our lives?

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O Gracious and Life-Giving FATHER,

We humble ourselves in repentance, knowing we have not greeted Thy HOLY CHILD+ JESUS as we daily rise, in the same fullness of thanksgiving and joy that the angels greeted HIM+ .

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O THOU, Who provided us a way to LIFE+ itself, forgive our earth-centered hearts. Move them, O LORD, to be focused on HEAVENLY things, constant in season and out, with THEE and Thy HOLY SON+, JESUS CHRIST our LORD.

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Amen.

Whose child are you?

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