Elizabeth and her daddy sat in the FRONT row in church this morning because her daddy is the lector.  That means he reads the lessons out loud from the big Bible up on the platform. 

Now, maybe it was because Elizabeth was sitting in a different place than usual or maybe it was because she was not sitting next to Barabas or any of her other friends or maybe it was because it had just been New Years Eve, but things seemed different to Elizabeth this morning.  She noticed three things that she has not paid attention to on other Sundays.

She listened to the lessons that her father read and it said that  ‘JESUS BECAME OBEDIENT TO THE POINT OF DEATH, EVEN DEATH ON A CROSS.” 

Elizabeth wondered to herself “We just celebrated Christmas when Jesus was born as a little baby and already we are hearing that he will die on a cross?!”

And a second thing she noticed was that when her daddy took Communion, after he dipped the bread in the wine and after he put it in his mouth, he made the sign of the cross. 

And the third thing that Elizabeth noticed was that many of the people looked at the cross after they took Communion and they bowed their head.

AT THE NAME OF JESUS EVERY KNEE SHOULD BEND, IN HEAVEN AND ON EARTH AND UNDER THE EARTH.

“Coming to church to worship God is more serious than I thought,” said Elizabeth to herself.  “I don’t know what these things all mean, but I know they are important.”

And Elizabeth pondered these things in her heart. 

There are many things about God that we can not understand.  But we know they are all important.  And we can ponder them in our own hearts.

THE END

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