Wednesday, December 12, 2001
Wednesday, December 12, 2001
Grace be with all who have an undying love for our Lord Jesus Christ.
He said that when he served in the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, he wrote a
marketing agreement for the walnut industry. That Christmas the industry thanked him
by sending him an enormous gunnysack full of packages of walnuts. This generous gift
came at a fortuitous time because Stevenson had not done his Christmas shopping.
Happily he took these packages of walnuts and sent them to all his Washington friends.
Then he made the awful discovery. In each of the individual packages was a little card
saying, "Merry Christmas from the walnut industry to Adlai Stevenson."
There are some surprises we could do without. Christmas is not one of them. God
comes into the world in the person of a tiny babe. Angels sing and shepherds rejoice
and the world is forever changed. That's one surprise that the world is still coming to
terms with.
(Ephesians 6:24
NRSV)
Adlai Stevenson, the much-respected politician who opposed Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower for the presidency.
Dear God, keep surprising me with your wonderful grace and love. Amen.
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