GOD IS NEAR @ CHRISTMAS

“The same God who formed the stars leans close to wounded heart.  

The same God who commands heaven listens to your quiet cry.  

So breathe ……” Psalms 34:18

These are the words to a song that I was listening to when the Lord began speaking to my heart about Christmas. 

I heard, “The advent of Christmas is a spiritual formation that is built from within.”

For years I struggled to participate in the Christmas Advent because the enemy had stolen my light of Christmas. 

Christmas reminds us that God does not reform the world from a distance. He inhabits it from within each of us.

Once I began reading The Word of God for myself, The Spirit of Christmas began forming into rhythmic lyrics of hope, peace, joy and love. 

The birth of Christ is not merely a historical event to remember and celebrate. It is the way God still works today. He enters the ordinary and transforms it into the holy.

• He did not arrive in power but in presence. 
• He came not to impress but to dwell—to be “with us.” through His Spirit, to shape us from the inside out.

This steady rhythmic formation takes time and while each of these virtues began satisfying my heart — God’s nearness was felt through His Spirit. The more time I gave Him, the more I felt Him. 

And time, when given to God, becomes worship. 

If we do not have these virtues of hope, peace, joy and love, — it’s because they can’t take root over a broken soul and it’s very difficult to feel God’s nearness to celebrate His Son. 

So I want to encourage you to infuse your Christmas formation for next year—-it all begins by taking quiet acts that are not small; they are sacred repetitions that train the soul to notice grace. 

The hope of Christmas invites us to slow down long enough to notice how quietly God works. He rarely rushes, but he never stops forming.

The same Spirit who hovered over the chaos at creation and overshadowed Mary in Nazareth still moves over the unformed places of your life today.

“And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.” Genesis 1:2

Perhaps your story, too, is being written in silence. 

Perhaps what feels like a delay is really God shaping you for the fullness of time.

Every longing you carry, every moment you wait, every act of trust—all of it becomes sacred ground where Christ is being formed in you. Hallelujah! So starting right now and all through the year of 2026 to allow God to do His deep work within you.

And next Christmas you will be amazed how you let the wonder of the manger remind you that God does not avoid smallness. He fills it.

And next Christmas you will you let the light in the darkness remind you that waiting is never wasted when love is being formed.

The God who came near has not gone far. He still comes—into the ordinary, into the weary, into the waiting—to form something beautiful in those who make room for him (John 3:16, Rev. 3:20). 

My prayer is the Light that once entered the world through a new born baby prepares your heart to receive Him in ways of seeing, speaking, and loving those GOD has placed in your life in 2026.

For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,”[a] made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God’s glory displayed in the face of Christ. 2 Cor. 4:6

The hope of Christmas is not simply God’s arrival; it is His Abiding.

🕊️Angela