Advent day waiting twenty-four. We sat together, all of us here to listen to the advent reading, the day was ending, the Sabbath rest of the Sunday before Christmas coming to a close. The devotional was read, the scripture also and it was time to kneel and pray when our youngest exclaimed, “we forget to light the new candle.” We had! One of the greatest rewards of our faith is raising children that want it enough to make it their own. Not that we pass it own to them but that they see it in us and desire to have the same faith themselves. Family faith is Biblical faith, not that we share our faith but that we each determine to work at our own faith together. And the result is what happened last night, each of our faiths encourages the growth and remembrances of our communal faith. We lit the candle, kneeled and prayed and the sang the ancient Christmas hymns, each of us basking in the glow of the new firelight of our Christ Child, remembered Savior of each of us; individually.
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