January 15: The Place of the Child

Affirmation: It’s okay not to be okay. Allow yourself to feel what you feel.

This is a good thing to journal about and find someone you trust to talk to about what you are feeling.

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Ponder: Read this verse over 5+ times and start  memorizing it. For a fuller understanding  & meditation read James 3:13-17.

James 3:17NIV
”But the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure; then peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere.“
‭‭James‬ ‭3‬:‭17‬ ‭NIV‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/111/jas.3.17.NIV

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Praying the Message of Jesus: A Year of Thoughts and Prayers
by Eugene Peterson

                        Jan 15

The Place of the Child

Instructed by the king, they set off. Then the star appeared again, the same star they had seen in the eastern skies. It led them on until it hovered over the place of the child. They could hardly con­tain themselves: They were in the right place! They had arrived at the right time!

MATTHEW 2:9-10

The dogma of the astrologer is that stars are impersonal cosmic arrange­ments that determine personal fate; the gospel is that stars are in God's services to "mark seasons and days and years" (Genesis 1:14). This star signals not our fate, but our freedom. 


Why were the magi glad? 

 

'1 look up at your macro-skies, dark and enormous, your handmade sky­jewelry, Moon and stars mounted in their settings. Then I look at my micro­self and wonder, Why do you bother with us? Why take a second look our way?" (Psalm 8:3-4). Amen. 

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