Christmas Apart

Pray for your missionaries during the holidays.  It can be some of the loneliest days as they are apart from their families. I came across a short passage in Amy Carmichael’s, Rose from Brier that I often think about and share at this time of year.  If you are apart from your family this year, may it bring comfort to you as it has to me.

“On my second Christmas Day, apart in measure from my dear family, I found comfort in ‘taking’ a new carol, which, unlike most carols, would look not only at Bethlehem, but also at Calvary.  There are times when nothing holds the heart but a long, long look at Calvary.  How very small anything that we are allowed to endure seems beside that Cross.”