Jade picked up some masting tape while she and I were playing with the doctor kit and her dolls the other day. "This is my healing tape," she announced. "God make it for me to heal me before I was born!"

This statement kind of blew me away. Clearly, she knew that God intended for her to be well and that God had her on His mind before she was born. I mean, isn't that what Advent is all about? God creating a way for healing before we were born?

As Union begins our Advent series, we will look at the genealogy of Jesus and the people who came before us who were part of the story. They made way for healing before we were born. These people - of all kinds and with a variety of stories - were the continual thread moving toward Jesus. In Genesis through the end of the Old Testament, the prophets were announcing...God is making a way to heal us and live with Him as part of God's family.

During Advent this year, I wonder if we can wonder about the places where God was working before we recognized it. Maybe by looking back as seeing God's handiwork, like we do in Jesus' genealogy, we can see where God was before us, loving us, and making a way we didn't see at the time, He's been in the past with us and is definitely the One who leads us in the future. Forever healing and loving.

God made a way before we were born.

Psalms 139:1-5 (NIV)
You have searched me, LORD, and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue you, LORD, know it completely. You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me.