Dear Friends,

Do you see the tiny caravan on the horizon between sand and sky?  They are the magi headed home, of course.  Astronomers? Astrologers? Magicians?  Omen readers of comets and meteors?  Certainly students of the night skies.  In the words of Reverend James Howell, “God is determined to be found and will use any and all measures, even tomfoolery (like astrology!), to reach out to people who are open.”  Something beckoned the magi to leave home with their servants and their camels and begin an incredibly long journey, one that might very well alter their lives forever.  Something drew them on across the desert.  And when they had seen, when they had fallen to their knees, when they had presented their gifts, they were changed people.  They were different, and they went home by another way.

My friends, there were well over 300 people here at church on Christmas Eve.   The light drew us here.  We, too, wanted to see it for ourselves.  As she sat by the manger, young Emma Cowing, our “Mary”, reached over and took three tiny electric candles from the basket of “stars” behind the pulpit and placed them carefully around the head of the baby Jesus in the manger.  The light shone forth.  Did you see it?  Did you go home changed?  I truly hope so.

See you in church!

Lorna