God is still moving near to us, how are we to respond? Ancient philosophers called Magi found a map to a worshipful response written upon the night sky. Maybe star-gazing can awaken our wonder and move us beyond our resistance to the Divine?

God is moving near to us in the person of Jesus, and we are invited to respond and draw near to Him. Almost right away, when people searched for the right word to express this sense of the nearness of God, they used the word “rest.” Listen to how the story of weary travelers offers us rest in a season of strife.

This Christmas story begins when hope breaks into a hopeless season in unexpected ways. Still, the first people to receive this hope have to wait. They have to live through a season of tension, anticipation, and expectation that everything is going to change.

Being an ambassador of the Tangible Kingdom means you accept the mission of God as your own. It means that you shift your attitude from "someone should" to "I will" when you are faced with the problems of our world. It means we are co-hosts of heaven on earth as sons and daughters of God. We embody our "sentness" through beneficial presence and sacrificial generosity.