Christmas is over.  And the New Year has begun.  Somehow I spent more than I intended due to miscalculations on traveling expenses.   Moving into a new day always seems to cost more than I planned.

One thought that struck me this Christmas when I prepared my Christmas Eve message was a thought I wasn’t prepared to unload at the time.  It took a few days to fully load up in my heart.

The night of Jesus’ birth was just filled with the voices of the Angels in praise or Shepherd’s singing songs or adulation of the wise men.  The season was also filled with the screams of the families of the first-born sons in Bethlehem that Herod had killed.

And the earth remains much the same today. My wife fills in for teachers in our school district here in Meridian. And the agony that many families suffer grips or soul some days.

There are mother’s in agony over what their children face. I think God had his ears on the loss of the mothers of Bethlehem as he does the cries of those in Meridian.  I would just like to be as much of a solution by God as possible to calm the tears of the broken.

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