Dear Jesus,
Thank you for 2020.
Thank you that despite the many challenges this year and the despair all around, you remain the same then, now and forevermore.
And I can only look up and praise you for your kindness and faithfulness, Lord.
Thank you that you remain true to your promise that you are the true bearer of hope and light.
May my family and I, Lord Jesus, continue to walk under the brightness and glory that your light brings to our lives.
Lord, thank you for your provisions this year and the years that came to pass. Looking back, Lord, you have been very generous to us.
Looking back, I now realize that your “hand” was in all aspects in my life. You were always there, Lord Jesus. I just didn’t know it then.
Lord, thank you for opening the “eyes” of my heart to this realization — that, really, it is because of your mercy that I am still around and well-provided for.
Lord, may I never forget this truth. That may this truth encourage me to be a blessing as well to the people I love, the people I work with, to strangers and most especially, to the brothers and sisters in community.
Lord Jesus, thank you for your love for me and for all humanity. Thank you for becoming flesh and bones because as baffling as that is, it was the only way for you to defeat sin and death.
Thank you, Lord, for being born in a manger — a symbol of your humility and a foreshadowing of how you were going to “rule”.
You came to the world in such an unexpected manner. As the King of Kings, you did not make it a point to be born inside a palace or to wealthy or “palatial” parents.
Again, you were born in a manger and to a carpenter-father. Yet, this was all meant to be. This was how Our Father designed your birth to be.
Silent. Simple. Spectacular.
Thank you, Jesus. Thank you that your birth led the way to mankind’s salvation. Oh, what hope! What amazing grace! What a hopeful promise!
Thank you, Jesus for 2020. Thank you for the good and the not-so good that happened and came this year!
Thank you for my family. Thank you for my community. They made me strong and hopeful this 2020.
Thank you for my friends. Thank you for my co-workers. They encouraged me to move forward this 2020.
Thank you for our courageous government leaders, frontliners, healthcare workers, doctors and nurses, and men in uniform. They kept us safe, grounded and protected this 2020. And “extra brave”, too!
Really, the only difference this 2020 and the years that came to pass is the COVID-19 pandemic. But you, Lord Jesus, you remain constant — unchanging.
How could I not love you, Lord! All that I am and all that I have come from you.
Thank you, Lord. I love you Lord Jesus. Happy Birthday, Jesus!
“O come, O come, Emmanuel
And ransom captive Israel
That mourns in lonely exile here
Until the Son of God appear
Rejoice, rejoice, Emmanuel
Shall come to thee, O Israel
“O come, Thou Rod of Jesse, free
Thine own from Satan’s tyranny
From depths of Hell Thy people save
And give them victory o’er the grave
Rejoice, rejoice, Emmanuel
Shall come to thee, o Israel
“O come, Thou Day-Spring
Come and cheer
Our spirits by Thine advent here
Disperse the gloomy clouds of night
And death’s dark shadows put to flight
Rejoice, rejoice, Emmanuel
Shall come to thee, o Israel
“O come, Thou Key of David, come
And open wide our heavenly home
Make safe the way that leads on high
And close the path to misery
Rejoice, rejoice, Emmanuel
Shall come to thee, o Israel
“O come, O come, Thou Lord of might
Who to Thy tribes, on Sinai’s height
In ancient times did’st give the Law
In cloud, and majesty and awe
Rejoice, rejoice, Emmanuel
Shall come to thee, o Israel”
