And the Time Came Quiet
- Kristine J.
- Dec 24, 2024
- 2 min read
Ann Voskamp, in her book the Greatest Gift, says this,
" And the time came..."
"And the time came quiet."
Last night I got home from work, heated up leftovers for Del and I, put on my jammies, flipped on the fireplace, sat on the couch and felt so relieved to have made it through to this Christmas time off. It only took about 20 minutes and it hit. What should I be doing? Why didn't I bake any Christmas cookies? I didn't send out Christmas cards! What is wrong with me?! I'm lazy. Shame on me.
All is calm? All is bright? Whatever. All felt more like frenzy.
But Ann's words this morning remind me.
A family tucked away somewhere in Bethlehem amidst the hurry and flurry of a government mandated census which must have felt like a grocery store on the morning of Christmas Eve.
A quiet corner. A mother, exhausted from her labor, resting with a sleeping baby on her chest. The trajectory of the entire world changed, A seismic shift. Yet no one knew. A heavenly battle had raged, a star shone bright, a victory banner, yet no one knew. All of it lost in the frenzy.
It was finished.
It was a new beginning.
The Spirit of God had been hovering over all the chaos from the Fall and there, in a quiet corner somewhere in Bethlehem, his faithfulness to us went deeper than we could ever ask for or imagine.
God with us.
God to live, breathe, grow, struggle, weep, laugh, dance, and feel, just like us.
God to bleed and die for us.
God to defeat death. A new beginning. His kingdom coming, his will being done, on earth as it is in heaven.
For us.
And the time came quiet. No one noticed. Everything had changed.
And the time came quiet.
LORD,
Words? For this moment? For the long ago moment in Bethlehem? For this degree of love for me amidst all my performance frenzy? Words fall short. I simply come and bow down. All I have is yours. Forgive me. Make me new. Wrap each of us in quiet moments to change everything.
Amazing grace.
Unending love.
Amen.
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