"Seeing Jesus with the Shepherds"

"Imagine you are a shepherd on the hillside, and when the heavenly host appears you are not to be afraid; you are to have joy. It is the same with all the teaching of the gospel that flows from the event when the shepherds saw and heard the angels, when they ran down the hill and looked upon Jesus. This is the difference it makes in our lives. 'And they worshiped him... with great joy.'" 


-Francis Schaeffer

Some Christmas Prose

Lights, gifts, and trees mark the Christmas season;
All of this can easily blur one's sight,
Keeping one from Jesus, the real reason
Behind the holiday hype, the True Light!

Dear friend, I hope at the end of this year
You can come before the Christ Child in awe,
Thankful for Immanuel, God so near,
The royal One upon a manger's straw.

Let's thank the LORD for coming so, so close!
He changed our hard hearts of stone into flesh,
Moving and stirring us to song and prose,
Glory, honor, and praise to give afresh!

-Eunice Im

one day

A few weeks ago, Beatrice went to be with the Lord at the age of 95. It's interesting when people pass away and I think about death... the reality of it. It seems far away, but it can happen anytime and to anyone and it will happen to everyone.

Even after many years, she was still striving to fight sin, love others, know God. When I think about how... Beatrice is no longer constrained in her feeble body, but fellowshipping with God so intimately, rejoicing, I don't know how to describe it but I'm speechless... joyful, have warm fuzzies, thankful.

I will be there one day, one day in paradise in perfect fellowship with God.

This was one song she knew from memory and would sing:
Amazing grace, how sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me
I once was lost, but now am found
Was blind but now I see