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IMMANUEL (4)

by Craig Smith

Scripture: Matthew 1:16-23
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Title: Immanuel (4)
Series: Prelude
Author: Craig Smith
Text: Matthew 1:16-23

Hey, Merry Christmas Mission Hills. Merry. I know it's only Christmas Eve, but I actually got what I think is probably gonna be my favorite Christmas present. And it wasn't even on my Amazon wishlist. Friday Colletta and her daughter Lenae came and they helped me clean up my wood shop, also known as our garage.

But we haven't parked cars in there in years and that's probably not gonnahappen. So wood shop and if you don't understand what a big blessing that was, it's 'cause you do not understand the magnitude of the mess. It was epic. Y'all like there, there was probably not a single tool I owned in his proper place.

There were scraps of wood everywhere. There were bottles of wood glue and there was so much sawdust. I'm not talking like a layer of dust on everything. I'm talking about mountains of man glitter. Like we found tools when we started cleaning up, and I'm not talking about like screwdrivers. I found a belt sander.

And if you know what a belt sander is, you know it's big, right? And I thought somebody had stolen it had been missing for weeks, but it was just under a pile of sawdust. Like it was epic. And when it was all done they left me. And I just kinda stood there in my garage and I had this little moment where I was like, oh, have you ever had a mess so big when it got cleaned up?

All you could do was go, oh, anybody know what I'm talking about? Or maybe you need one of those moments. Maybe Christmas has been a little bit messy. You been Christmas messy for anybody else, maybe you need a little moment right now. Why don't we just all do this together? It's practice. We're gonna go, oh, okay.

That was practice for real now.

Oh, it feels good, doesn't it? I'm standing there in my garage. And I had this thought, okay, now we can do Christmas because our family was coming and, Christmas it's gotta be perfect, right? And I was like, if anybody is in my hous ...

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