If you were God...

If you were God and decided 

to come in the flesh to make your love for the world tangible

I bet you wouldn’t choose to start with 

an insignificant, unmarried, village girl 

and get her pregnant! 

Especially when that would cause huge scandal in the community 

and especially when the wrath of the paranoid ruler meant 

the little family had to escape the country.

Which just goes to show that we are haven’t a clue 
about what God is up to most of the time! 

That’s cause for hope... and anticipation of what might happen next!

If you have five minutes of quiet reflective time today Click here to listen to this beautiful piano and cello rendition of O Come O Come Immanuel. 

We sing this every Sunday during Advent but change "Israel" to "Ponsonby" (where our Church is). Try inserting  the name of your location or city. Here are the words of the first verse:

O come O come Immanuel

And ransom captive Israel

That mourns in lonely exile here

Until the Son of God appear

Rejoice! Rejoice! Immanuel

Shall come to thee, O Israel.