"cake...for me?"
The VANTEDGE Middle School Ministry just indulged in our Christmas Party this week! Teens brought cake, cookies, and other homemade confections to be devoured in a matter of minutes leaving a disaster area of wrappers, icing, plates, smeared chocolate, spilled cider…you know, Christmas.
I the middle of all the sugary indulgence, I managed to get the room full of middle schoolers to stop for a moment and join me in a experiment. As we stood around the table of drinks and desserts with everyone’s attention captive, I began singing Happy Birthday. The room full of teens stopped everything else they were doing to join right in and we all sang, “happy birthday, dear Jesus…Happy birthday to You!”
Remember, this Christmas season is all about a birthday.
Not your birthday.
Not my birthday.
Not your child’s birthday.
Christmas is to be celebrated as the day God chose to be BORN among us. Christmas is the day God began to live here among us…just as one of us.
What a miracle!
Happy birthday, Jesus.
Happy Birthday
By: Mary O'Dea on December 10, 2009
at 2:08 AM
woops. meant to add Jesus at the end of that.
By: Mary O'Dea on December 10, 2009
at 2:09 AM