Angels Everywhere!

 Hello to all my friends!  Christmas is coming really fast now! Mommie says it will be here in five days! I am so excited because this is my very first Christmas, and everything is bright and new and so beautiful! Little by little I've been learning all about what Christmas really means.  Mommie says we are on a Christmas ADVENTure...Advent is the time of preparing our hearts to receive the Christ child anew each year.  

I told Mommie that I was seeing a lot of pretty angels on our Christmas tree and in other places around the house. I asked her why we have so many angels at Christmas time?

Here's a few of them...

Mommie said:  Angels spoke to Mary, to Joseph,  and to the Shepherds.  Angels are still working in the presence of God and in our midst, protecting, guiding God's people along the way."  

Here's the story from God's Word, The Bible:

"Now in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David.  The virgin's name was Mary."

"And having come in, the angel said to her, "Rejoice, highly favored one, the Lord is with you; blessed are you among women!"

"But when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and considered what manner of greeting this was.  Then the angel said to her, "Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bring forth a Son, and shall call His name Jesus.  He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Highest; and Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David.  And He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of His kingdom there will be no end."  Luke 1: 26-33

And to Joseph an Angel of the Lord appeared in a dream and said to him,

"Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take to you Mary your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.  And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins."  Matthew 1:20-21

And then the Angel spoke to the Shepherds, who were out in the fields, "keeping watch over their flock by night.  And behold, and angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were greatly afraid.

Then the angel said to them, 'Do not be afraid, for behold I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people.  For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.  .

And this will be a sign to you: You will find a Babe wrapped in swaddling cloths, lying in a manger

And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying:

   "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth, peace, good will to men." Luke 2: 8-14

Here's some more of those special Christmas carols that we sing to tell how the angels announced Jesus' birth:

I said to Mommie, "Now I understand why there are so many angels everywhere! They had a very important job to do in announcing Jesus' birth!"

Mommie said yes they did.  She also said:

"I believe that Angels are still at work in our midst....oftentimes being sent on special missions on our behalf directly from the Throne of God...
We will someday be surprised to meet the angelic ambassadors who may have rescued us from many a fall and who stood in the path of danger for us so that we would be safely  protected from the onslaughts of the enemies of God's precious children.
We may be surprised to meet them as they come to carry us heavenward someday....and realize that perhaps we had been entertaining angels unwittingly....

I said, "Wow,  Mommie! I hope I can meet an angel some day! Do you think I ever will?"

She said that I just might be surprised!

We just never know who might be knocking on our door!

"Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some have unwittingly entertained angels."  Hebrews 13:2

Well, I hope you enjoyed this little story about the angels...and maybe we should be really nice to strangers, because they just might be an angel.  But Mommie said we should still be very careful and that little children should not talk to strangers without Mommie or Daddy being there too. She said it's always best to let our parents decide who we should talk to, just to be on the safe side.  That makes good sense to me, how about you?  

Well, it is almost bedtime, so I'd better go for now. I sure am enjoying learning about Jesus' birthday, aren't you? Good night every one.  I hope you have a very Merry Christmas!

Love,

Lily Grace

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