How can these things be?

“Mary asked the angel, ‘But how can this happen?”(Luke 1:34-NLT).

This Christmas, I am reminded of the amazing journey that God undertook to find us. Consider the billions of light years he traveled.

The gulf he crossed as divinity came down to humanity.

The miracle of his conception and birth.

The cost of his sacrifice...
The scourging in Pilots hall...
His ignominious death...
He who knew no sin, became sin...

How far did God come to find you?

He came from very far to find my grandmother,
He found her in Twin Falls, Idaho living in extreme poverty and chaos.

She was running from several broken marriages.
She was hiding from a very colorful past.
She was living hand to mouth, and not very well.
She had one son, who she had to board out from time to time, because she could not feed him.

He came from very far to find two people who were living on the very edge of hope.




At her passing she was a woman of faith, had raised her son in the church, had four grandsons and 11 great grandchildren all in the faith.

She had served as a missionary to Alaska, in very primitive areas, was a soul winner, a woman of faith, a woman of prayer, and a inspiration to all who knew her.

My grandmother could of easily been bitter,
She never was...

What she had found was far better than what she had left behind.

How far did God come to find you?
What miracles did he wrought to bring you through?

This Christmas he still comes from afar to find the hurting, the fallen and the forgotten. He came to find each one of us so that we could see the God that loves us, face to face.

"How can these things be?"

It is our responsibility to answer his call, it is his responsibility to work the miracles to make it happen.

Merry Christmas... May the miracle of the season fill your hearts and homes.

Lance and Pattie



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