With Love, All Things Are Possible
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The minister spoke of Christ's presence in all of us throughout the pandemic; we were not alone, even though many of us felt the isolation and the pain in our ourselves and in others. We were bound together by the love of Jesus Christ; He would help us overcome the darkness, fear, anger, grief, loneliness, pain, and tears. We needed to sing joyfully and ask for wisdom and understanding. Our hearts needed to be filled with love. God gave us His only Son so that we could know Him in the manger and on the cross. During these hard times, we might break down in tears, but we needed to raise ourselves up to know what path to take. Through good works and the words of caring individuals, God's love would shine on us. In tears filled with the power of our heavenly Father, we would know that all of us were in this thing called COVID, together. Sarah's mother and father appeared in her dreams that Christmas Eve night in 2021, and they told her that God would never let her fall. Nothing was impossible with Him. Perhaps to quell her fears about our country's current problems, her parents suggested she would be visited by three angels: one from the past, one from the present, and one from the future. The angel from the past asked her about what she loved from the Christmases of her childhood. She said, "I loved sharing happy times with my family in church, playing around the tree, hearing my mother and grandmother sing, "Silent Night," in Hungarian, trips up to the mountains in a sleigh, snowball fights with my brother, and making cookies and hard candy with my mother." "Then you have found the answer to your sadness; remember those happy times to carry you into the new year," replied the angel from the past. A fog slipped into her dream with the angel from the present, who was wearing a mask. Sarah asked, "Why are you wearing a mask?" The angel said, "Just because I live in heaven does not mean that I am not concerned about people here on earth. God is telling all of you to love your neighbors as yourself. Bring His Word to all who will listen and help them to hold Him in their hearts., Faith, hope, and love abide still, but the greatest of these is love. I must go now because there are many whom I will be leading home tonight." After a few minutes, the angel from the future arrived, looking like a robot. He could not speak, but through pictures on the screen of his stomach, he showed Sarah what our world could look like if we did not turn our hearts and minds back to God. The angel said, "I know your fears, but only God knows the future. 'For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.' I am here to tell you that God still loves you and will continue to love you, even when you make mistakes." Sarah needed to focus on faith, hope, and love; they would help her to move forward, knowing that God would never forsake her. He, alone, was the anchor of her soul. As Sarah's mother and father began to leave in the mist of her dream, she heard them humming, "In the Bleak Midwinter," as if to say, "Keep the manger in your heart all year long, Sarah; Christ will walk beside you all your life." Sarah awoke on Christmas morning whispering, "I would bring Him a lamb if I were a shepherd. I would bring him a special gift if I were a Wise Man. I can only bring Him my heart and soul."
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About the Book
In our struggling world, we are responsible to bring God's love and Christ's light into a world that seems to have forgotten this task to foster more secular responses to the world's problems. Many of us try to do everything by ourselves and soon realize we cannot do much without God's help. This book speaks to real life issues that need our individual and national attention. The needs of our children, the sacrifices of the military, struggling families, the power of prayer, the importance of mission work, ubuntu possibilities to solve problems, core values in the Word, the value of Christian holidays, and the effects of COVID on ourselves, the nation, and the world. Fears and doubts are not answers to our problems, but all things are possible with love. With her own prayers, poems, and philosophies and various Biblical texts, the author encourages all to see that with Jesus Christ's love, light, hope, peace, and grace, all things are possible when we open our hearts to God and others. Creating a beautiful world for us, God gave us free will so that we might grow in the wisdom of His Word and laws. We must love one another and be Christ with flesh on. Anger, hatred, violence, and malicious words will not create a better world; only love can. COVID taught us that we "are" because of so many people. Americans and the nation have been given much, and with that abundance, much is expected of us.
About the Author
Anna Hartt is an accomplished musician, writer, teacher, composer, poet, and painter. She has taught music for fifty years and served several churches as a music director and organist. The author of Listen to the Voices of Your Heart, The River Flows On, and God Plants Seeds holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in music education and an equivalent doctorate degree in the psychology of learning. She resides in Wisconsin with her beloved cat, Mikie.