Let Every Grocery Store Prepare Him Room

I live next to the grocery store. I call it my pantry. I am not sure if it's a blessing or a curse but it is convenient. I leave the grocery shopping to Cecilia but every few days I wander up there myself for refreshments or to restock the coffee supplies at our house. 

The first display you will see when you walk into the grocery store is seasonal. To the left there is a big display of candy. Bags of candy so big they will set you back 20 dollars and to the right there is a table of baked goods. These almost always reflect the next holiday. 

My favorite holiday is the holiday I call Halloween to Christmas. The grocery store will be filled with pumpkins and witches and ghosts, then turkeys, then Christmas tree shapes fill the store alongside cinnamon scented pine cones and boxes of candy canes. As soon as Christmas has passed the store fills with heart shapes and chocolates. If you go into the store right now everything is pastel and easter bunnies. 

The grocery store is a masterclass in preparation. 

There is an old Christmas song that sings “let every heart prepare him room”

If a silent observer could take a stroll through your heart would they find that you have created space for Christ?

Bless you

• Pastor.