A message from Pastor Andrea Chaumont

December 25, 2025

You don’t get to control the time of birth. It’s one of the things that even those of us control freaks cannot manufacture. You can walk around the block, eat ginger, get in water, or any of the other “techniques” to speed up the arrival, but the baby comes when the baby comes. Today we remember and celebrate that in a moment in history, God broke into our mess in the form of a baby. We didn’t get to pick the time, God came as Thomas Merton says “uninvited.”

“Into this world, this demented inn, in which there is absolutely no room for Him at all, Christ has come uninvited.” - Thomas Merton

God came uninvited and in the fullness of time (Galatians 4:4-7). In her 1973 poem The Risk of Birth, Madeline L’Engle asks “when is the time for love to be born?” As you gather today with friends and family around beautiful meals, presents, and holiday merriment, this is again the time for love to be born - let Christ be born in you. 

“When is the time for love to be born?

The inn is full on the planet earth,

And by a comet the sky is torn - 

Yet Love still takes the risk of birth.” 

From The Risk of Birth - Madeline L’Engle

Christmas blessings,

Pastor Andrea