The Saviour Comes: A Reflection

 

                                         Made by the Children of Simon Balle Through School 

God has come to us in the midst of our distress.

In the middle of our loneliness and despair, 

God has sent us a sign of his love.

Into a world filled with hopelessness and anxiety, 

God comes to us in the hopeful form of new life and new birth.

Christ came to be the light in a dark world.

Christ came to show us love in the midst of fear

Christ came to bring life in the midst of death.

The cross and  the nativity remind us that Christ did not come to be a cute baby

but, in the midst of suffering and poverty, he brings healing and wholeness.

Christ came to preach, teach, heal, suffer and die.

Jesus on the cross hangs over our altars,

The cross hovers over the nativity  of the Christ child.

Christ did not come to reward us for being good, 

But to save us from ourselves and to give us eternal life.

When we realise this, we are ready to celebrate with true joy and celebration 

‘For unto us a child is born, who is Christ the Lord’. Hallelujah.

 

 

                                            The take-home Christ Child, All Saints