Seasons Greetings

I am so delighted to pen these words to you after such a long absence. I am sure most folks can identify with packed and burdened worklives and family lives this time of the year. Therefore as a homily to you but mostly for myself, I bring this word: There is a miracle coming.

I cannot tell you what yours is, though you may be burdened and hoping little for relief. But it is coming:

"In the time of my favor I will answer you,
and in the day of salvation I will help you;
I will keep you and will make you to be a covenant for the people, to restore the land and to reassign its desolate inheritances,
to say to the captives, 'Come out,'
and to those in darkness, 'Be free!'
They will feed beside the roads and find pasture on every barren hill.
They will neither hunger nor thirst,
nor will the deseart heat or the sun beat upon them.
He who has compassion on them will guide them
and lead them beside springs of water.
For the Lord comforts his people
and will have compassion on his afflicted ones."

Isaiah 49: 8-11, 13 (NIV)