My Doesn't The Sky Look Full

Night after night brought the same thing.....
Supper.....
Chores around the house.....
Taking care of the little ones with runny noses and stomach aches....
Thoughts of the day crowded out any peace that could be found....
"How am I going to come up with the money to pay my taxes?"
But there was the star in the night sky.

Neighbors dropped by and shared their stories....misery loves company.
Taxes are going to be increased to help pay for the new Temple...
Thoughts of a Messiah or a deliverer were nothing more than a pipe dream....
But there was the star in the night sky.

Dropping into bed, muscles sore and aching from the day's labor, you thought you'd find an escape from the troubles of life....but sleep did not come easy...
It's hard to turn your brain off...
But there was the star in the night sky.

All through out Jerusalem and the surrounding country, life went on....
Day after day....Markets opened and people plied their ware...selling and buying...
There were marriages and funerals....birth's and death's....
But each night, without fail, there in the night sky was the star.
Finally travelers from the East came and word spread quickly that they had come to worship a new born king.
They had followed a star.

Matthew 2:1-2 reads: Wise men from the East came to Jerusalem saying, "Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we have seen His star in the East and have come to worship Him."
People everywhere in the region had lived their lives, gone about their business....yet only a group of men from the East had seen the star.
The religious rulers and people of Jerusalem...the very ones given the authority and power to search and find the Messiah....did not see the star. They knew the prophecies concerning the birth of the Christ Child, but they did not see the star.
King Herod, fearful and paranoid toward anyone and anything that might pose a threat to his rule and power, knew of these prophecies...yet he did not see the star.

You can know something.....but never see it, if you don't stop and look up.
You can know all about A.A. and recovery....
You can know the big book backwards and forwards....
Higher Power....
12 Steps....
But if you don't look up and see Jesus....it's all a bunch of empty promises.
You've looked inward long enough for a solution.
You've searched your heart and found only the problem.....
Now, look outward...
Look up for a Power greater than yourself who can (not might or could..but can) restore you to sanity.
To be restored to sanity must mean that you and the world around you has grown insane.
The answer has always been there.....just like the Christmas Star.
You just had to look up and see it.

Don't miss the answer to every problem you face by not seeing it.
Don't miss the one thing that has been lacking in your life that would enable you to move beyond addiction and sin....He's always been there, waiting for you to see Him..........Jesus.

Merry Christmas from the "B's" of Attalla....Michael and Vicki.

God on you...
mb