Merry Christmas, friends! I’m not sure how your Christmas Eve service went, but mine had a lot of whiplash to it. One minute, we were singing songs that captured Mary’s joy, and the next, we were mulling things over with Joseph. Next, we were exclaiming the glories of the Heavens with the shepherds, and then grieving for the holy family as they fled for their lives from political tyrants.
Throughout our service, our songs transitioned from high to low and back again. From major to minor and back again. From fast to slow and back again.
The Christmas story finds its heights in the stars and its lows in the straw, just as our own stories do. I don’t know where you find yourself on the scale of stars and straw today, but the story of Jesus’ birth reminds us that he is there with us in the midst of it—that there is no height or depth that he cannot, will not, and has not already met us in.
So, regardless of where you are or how you’re feeling today, may you be blessed this Christmas Eve. For God meets us in the ups and downs of this world and traverses our journey with us.
Love you all!
Jamin Bradley 
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