Christmas Nine, Gumbo Grace

The blue of the day turns a bit pale as the goodness of God we hail. The sun going down makes an orange fire in the sky as we give ourselves over to a God on which we can rely. God’s love moves in the ending of day as it touches people of every class from the best heeled to those the uncaring term as “trash.” After all God’s gift did not come to life in the best of places and only survived by God’s grace. Like the many ingredients added to well browned rue, God’s gift was given everybody else and you. God’s young son was worshipped by shepherds who responded to good news on angel’s wings and later by the star reading kings. God gift of love in the Christ child is big enough to cover persons the most assertive and the gentlest mild. God’s gift of love is available to the person well known around town and to the old man or woman digging in the ground. The child, Christ Jesus, came into the world for “all” and that means any of us upon his holy gracious name can call.