Christmas Eve Date

The Lord recently took me on a God date as I call them. It was very personal and precious. Yet I want to try to put it into words of some kind to seal it in my mind and share how presonal and precious God is. In November I really felt like I should go to a Christmas Eve service somewhere. My own church doesn't have a service that night which is understandable. And normally I enjoy being home that night. But this year I felt a pressing need to go to a Christmas Eve service. The thought wouldn't leave me. So I text my friend Hannah whose church is about 40 minutes away. Yes. They have one so it was settled; I was going to Christmas Eve service. I later learned it would be a candlelight service like when I was a little girl living in New England. That is when it dawned on me. This was going to be a God date. He was calling me to go. He knew: My first memory of church. My first memory of Christmas. My first memory of thinking God is real. My first clear memory of my dad. A...