Wow!!! I never imagined I would be blogging at 10 in the evening, I am usually inspired in the early morning hours but after spending the last hours reading I just have to share. I will first of all tell you that I have NEVER in my life wanted to just keep reading like this...you know it must be good or maybe just the right reading at the right time, God's time!
The book is titled A Ragamuffin Christmas by Craig Daliessio...that's right Christmas in July like I have never experienced before. Feels like an early gift...it is almost my birthday after all :) Please don't wait until Christmas to read this one. I will be reading it again the month of December every year for the rest of my life. It is designed to be an advent reading. I don't know what each of you believe theologically but I do believe there is something in this book for every living breathing person. Something that will touch your heart and soul.
I have been taken from that dingy dark and desolate cave of Jesus' birth to the very throne of God. I always knew there was something special about babies...something almost mysterious. Craig has captured my very heart for those little ones with his words. There is no love like that of a child and especially a newborn child, a "Baby King"
Read how the baby reacts to the daily visitors that come to his birth to look in his eyes...to touch his sweet face...to love and be loved. Let your soul be touched through this writers eyes, his pain, his life. This is truly a gifted heart with a wonderful story to tell. A real story...no fairy-tales here...this is life in the raw. A life lived out loud. I pray you will be blessed and will pass this blessing forward to those around you...we all need some baby love...unconditional love...
The first 50 pages are an introduction to what is to come...keep reading for the best is yet to come... I can't wait to wake up tomorrow and finish the last hour...Thank you Craig for sharing what "real" Christianity looks like...not the behind the great curtain kind...or the kind that floats around in a bubble...
It's the morning after and I have finished the book...and you won't believe what God sent me this morning right outside my door...He loves this Pamela Carol ragamuffin so much...
"That is the wonder of His coming to us as a
touchable, loving infant baby. His love is penetrating
when we take him to our hearts and let it do what it
does. I hold Him for a long, long time. My sadness and
regrets turn to hope and worship and joy. Babies can do
...that. Babies bring the new start we all desperately seek
from time to time in our lives. I am lost in the wonder
of holding a child and I am enchanted."
Carol...it was wonderful to receive your messages and posts throughout the time you were reading my book. I felt that way as each story went from the seed of inspiration to a complete chapter...sometimes in as little as 7 or 8 minutes. (The story of Andre Deputy literally took less than 7 minutes from conception to completion) The book actually began as a blog series two and a half years ago. Your encouragement means a lot. My dream is to have many more people read this book, and experience the tiny Baby King as He longed for us to. Thanks again,
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