Posts tagged ‘King of Kings’

This Saturday…the Marys

English: Jesus resurrected and Mary Magdalene

English: Jesus resurrected and Mary Magdalene (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

It hurts to feel like some kind of peasant, or almost one, doesn’t it?

It hurts to be a poor woman; an outcast woman; an old woman; a misunderstood woman; a difficult woman; a plain woman; a neurotic woman; maybe an unloved woman.

But think of it—God chose Mary, a plain peasant woman, to bear Jesus, the King of Kings, the Savior of the World, Whose birth many of us will soon celebrate, Lord willing, at Christmastime.

It helps to know that God chose Mary, a poor woman, but who was devoted to God, to bring us Jesus—the Holy One; the Righteous One; the Rose of Sharon; Wonderful Counselor; Mighty God; the Prince of Peace.

No matter what, God sees and cares and loves. God knows everything. God is here, and there, to help.

In the fullness of time, God will send some kind of angel, maybe one angel, someone, or a whole choir, bearing Good News.

You and I may be peasant people, in a poor house right now, perhaps a poor house of the heart, but we are just the person God is looking for.

Let’s hold to Jesus, to worship Him, like Mary Magdalene.

Jesus won’t leave us. He promised never to leave us, nor never forsake us.

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 November 17, 2012  Brook   2 Comments
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Orchids and Candles

A collection of lit candles on ornate candlesticks

A collection of lit candles on ornate candlesticks (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Yesterday, I saw orchids in the floral section of a Bi-Lo grocery store.

The tags on those elegant flowers said “Just Add Ice Orchids.” At the Just Add Ice Orchids website, there are wonderful things to learn about orchids, like how watering orchids with ice cubes can prevent over-watering. The ice cubes watering method works with other flowers as well.

Orchids are such exotic flowers, originally from the Far East tropical climates.

In other places, where it gets cold, orchids and other tropical plants grow in greenhouses, glass-like, where there’s always balmy warmth and personal care and precise beauty, grown with carefully-controlled lighting. It sounds so elegant, taking care like that.

All an orchid has to do is say hello to be glorious.

Beautiful elegance like that has its place, but there’s shared simplicity as well.

Last night, at Catholic class, they gave us little white pumpkin-shaped candles, wrapped in clear cellophane, like crinkled glass, tied at top with a straw-like bow. The straw reminds me of the manger, the stall, where Jesus, the King of Kings, was born.

It’s almost time to celebrate the birth of Jesus, this Christmas. It’s so joyful, thinking about Jesus and Christmas and how He was born and died and Rose Again, to free the whole world from sin and death and eventually from all sorrow, for anyone who believes in and trusts Him, Jesus gives abundant life, everlasting (but not always easy) life.

Written in earth brown script on the candle was the word “Blessed.” That’s how it felt this morning, looking at that simple little candle with its message of love, from God‘s heart, to someone else’s heart, to all our hearts.

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 November 7, 2012  Brook   2 Comments
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