a couple weeks ago, i was listening to an old amy grant christmas cd. i don’t know about you but i grew up on that album. and i can be a wee bit sentimental about these kinds of things…
it’s filled with upbeat songs that bring back the childlike excitement of christmas. the songs fill you with hope and joy of the season.
somewhere towards the end of the cd, the music mellows and the song that gets me everytime plays…
breath of heaven.
if you haven’t heard it, it’s a song about mary and her journey carrying that precious baby. it takes you away to a distant time and place. there are no christmas lights or santa clauses, just a young girl and a young man on their way to bethlehem.
as i thought about this song again, a new thought came to me. i once heard of a woman who would notice with each pregnancy an increase in the gift that the specific child carried.
it made me think of mary.
was she more aware of deeper things while she carried the Savior in her young body?
i think so…
was she overcome by compassion when she passed by the less fortunate?
was she more aware of injustice in the world around her?
was she stirred to somehow bring hope to the broken world in which she walked?
was she aware that within her dwelt the One who would overcome all of this?
then my thoughts turned to us some 2000 years later. and a familiar verse.
“To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.” -colossians 1:27
not only did He dwell in mary. He chooses to dwell in us today.
do we carry His love?
are we moved with compassion?
do we walk in the gifts that He carries?
you may be thinking i am inadequate to carry this Man… she did too.
“Do you wonder
As you watch my face
If a wiser one, should of had my place”
my prayer for you tonight is that the breath of heaven is filling you now. i pray that you would be filled with a fresh awareness of His sweet presence that dwells within you.
merry christmas 2011!!
“Breath of Heaven
Hold me together
Be forever near me
Breath of Heaven
Breath of Heaven
Lighten my darkness
Pour over me, your holyness
For your holy Breath of Heaven”
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