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Waiting for baby Jesus

With Christmas officially past us, there has been one thought stuck in my mind since Saturday night. Saturday night was the Christmas eve service at church, after the Christmas eve service our family traditionally has other families/couples over for finger food and talking (it's kinda my favorite Christmas Tradition around here). My mom was on the worship team for Christmas eve so we had gotten there over an hour before the service started and I was talking to our friend's daughter. She was standing in front of the manger that had been used in the Christmas program the Sunday before and just hadn't made it back to the basement yet, and she was "reading" the bulletin upside-down. Crouching down beside her I asked her what she was doing, she informed me that she was reading about fruit to baby Jesus' bed. I then asked her if I she was coming with her parents to my house tonight after church, her reply was simple "No, my mom and dad are, but I'm waiting for Baby Jesus!" It was cute at the time, but she gave this answer more than once, anyone who asked her what she was doing would get the same reply "I'm waiting for Baby Jesus!" She was adamant about waiting for her baby Jesus, even if it meant spending the whole night (which she did not do btw ;) ). Whether they knew it or not, everyone was waiting for baby Jesus that night long ago. Some were too busy working to pay attention or even care, some were watching sheep in a field and had the angels proclaim it to them, others were in a far away land following a star that would eventually lead them to Him, and others were waiting in their palace for wise men to tell him where he was so that he could kill the threat to his throne, my little friend? She was waiting at the manger, she knew where she belonged, she knew where she'd find Jesus. In her Child-like Faith she was where we should be, waiting at the manger. So, the question in my mind and heart this week has been, "where am I waiting, am I waiting at the manger?" How about you, where are you waiting?

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