The Prince Of Peace (4 of 4)
Series: I Love Christmas
Ryan Heller
Isaiah 9:6
The Prince of Peace Brings...
1. Peace Of God?
2. Peace With God
I was looking through a family picture album recently and I noticed that we had never taken a family photo with Santa Claus. My kids were getting a little bit bigger, so I told Gena, ''I kind of feel like a bad parent because we haven't gotten a little family photo with Santa. What's wrong with us?'' She said, ''I don't know if you remember, but it's because of the Easter Bunny.'' Then I remembered that when my little boy was like 2 or 3 years old, we stood in line at the mall for two or three hours to get our picture with the Easter Bunny. We were so pumped. I was expecting this to be one of those classic family Hallmark-esque moments, but when I put my little boy on the Easter Bunny's lap, he began to scream bloody murder. So, we have this great picture of the Easter Bunny, all smiles, and Zayne completely freaked out. So, we never got bold enough to go see Santa Claus because of the traumatic experience with the Easter Bunny.
I was expecting that moment to be so special and so memorable, but in reality, it didn't turn out like I thought. Sometimes life is like that, isn't it? We think that life is going to go this direction, we think that we're going to be in this situation, and we think that we're going to have these picture-perfect moments. But when we actually get there, it isn't exactly what we expected. As a result, our peace is taken away. We don't have peace because we look at where we are and where we expected to be, and we see a conflict. So, we have a lack of peace. Peace is one of those things that there's a lack of today. In our culture, everywhere we turn, we see hostility. We see people fighting. We see people that are angry with one another. We see it on in the news, on the internet, in the newspaper. We see it in the home, because many times the home can be a place where there's a lack ...
Series: I Love Christmas
Ryan Heller
Isaiah 9:6
The Prince of Peace Brings...
1. Peace Of God?
2. Peace With God
I was looking through a family picture album recently and I noticed that we had never taken a family photo with Santa Claus. My kids were getting a little bit bigger, so I told Gena, ''I kind of feel like a bad parent because we haven't gotten a little family photo with Santa. What's wrong with us?'' She said, ''I don't know if you remember, but it's because of the Easter Bunny.'' Then I remembered that when my little boy was like 2 or 3 years old, we stood in line at the mall for two or three hours to get our picture with the Easter Bunny. We were so pumped. I was expecting this to be one of those classic family Hallmark-esque moments, but when I put my little boy on the Easter Bunny's lap, he began to scream bloody murder. So, we have this great picture of the Easter Bunny, all smiles, and Zayne completely freaked out. So, we never got bold enough to go see Santa Claus because of the traumatic experience with the Easter Bunny.
I was expecting that moment to be so special and so memorable, but in reality, it didn't turn out like I thought. Sometimes life is like that, isn't it? We think that life is going to go this direction, we think that we're going to be in this situation, and we think that we're going to have these picture-perfect moments. But when we actually get there, it isn't exactly what we expected. As a result, our peace is taken away. We don't have peace because we look at where we are and where we expected to be, and we see a conflict. So, we have a lack of peace. Peace is one of those things that there's a lack of today. In our culture, everywhere we turn, we see hostility. We see people fighting. We see people that are angry with one another. We see it on in the news, on the internet, in the newspaper. We see it in the home, because many times the home can be a place where there's a lack ...
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