A Bethlehem Moment

December 10, 2025

From Pastor Eileen States

There’s something quiet about the Christmas story that’s easy to overlook. Jesus didn’t arrive with fanfare. No trumpets. No crowds. No royal welcome. God chose a small, out-of-the-way spot - a stable hardly anyone noticed.

The greatest miracle in history came wrapped in silence.

We tend to picture God working in big, dramatic moments, but Luke reminds us that Jesus’ birth didn’t happen that way. There wasn’t even space for Him in the inn. God made room in a place nobody would have chosen. The Savior entered the world in a moment so ordinary that most people didn’t even realize what was happening.

And honestly, God still works like that today.

December gets noisy. Our schedules fill up. Our minds race. But God often speaks in the quiet places - the pauses we normally rush past, the moments we think don’t matter. The real question is whether we slow down enough to hear Him.

Maybe the most Christ-centered thing we can do this season is simply to make room - to pause, breathe, and sit in a bit of silence. In that quiet, God does His restoring work. In the quiet, He shapes us again. In the quiet, His presence settles deeper into our hearts.

So here’s my challenge for myself and for you - Find a small, quiet space - a little Bethlehem moment - in your day. Make room. Let Christ come close.