Quietly and unassumingly, a visitor entered the hospital room. Though the room was dimly lit, this man, a complete stranger to me, seemed illuminated by God’s Heavenly “Ray”. His demeanor was humble. His loving concern for my Brother was celestially assertive. While I did not know this man, I deeply knew of the “God made Man” whose presence he represented. My sister heart prayed “thank you, God, for sending my Brother the present of your comforting presence.
Empty handed was not the way this “Ray” from God arrived. His palms clutched the most paramount gift God has ever offered man — the Bread of Life. Explanation relates this God sent “Ray” was carrying his daughter’s gift to both my Brother and all of our family surrounding him. Seems this daughter’s specialty, her God given talent, is making homemade bread. My observation adds the proclamation this “SON”beam daughter fed, not only, hungry tummies, but also, starving souls.
I could not help but feel affirmed that the nourishment delivered was not of man, but rather, of God. Worldly man would have sent an entire, ribbon wrapped loaf. God’s “Ray” and His “Son”beam daughter first broke their loaf and then shared. “The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ? Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread.” (1 Corinthians 10:16-17 ESV). “For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when He was betrayed took bread, and when He had given thanks, He broke it, and said, ‘This is My body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of Me’.” (1 Corinthians 11:23-24 ESV).
A piece of broken off bread was the last morsel of food my brother hungered for and of which he, eagerly, partook. God’s “Ray” and “SON”beam daughter fed my Brother’s cancer decayed, human frame the eternal Bread of Life.
On that very first Christmas night, a bright light in the sky marked the SON OF GOD’s birth on earth. 2,024 years later, God’s “Ray” and “SON”beam daughter, from earth, illuminated the final steps of my Brother’s birth into Heaven.
This Christmas morn heralds “Joy to the World” as my Brother is a “Sleep in Heavenly Peace”. No better messengers of these tidings could God have chosen to deliver His Christmas Bread of Life than His “Ray” and “SON”beam daughter. My heart is grateful and my soul abundantly nourished. May any, and all, who share this post, also, break and partake of the Bread of Life — God’s, first and foremost, CHRISTmas gift to each and every one of us on earth.
Uplifted in a Broken Down World 