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BUMC Mini-Blast December 9, 2025 JesusTime Devotion by Joey Capuano

Psalm 146:5-10   5 Happy are those whose help is the God of Jacob,     whose hope is in the Lord their God, 6 who made heaven and earth,     the sea, and all that is in them; who keeps faith forever; 7     who executes justice for the oppressed;     who gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets the prisoners free; 8     the Lord opens the eyes of the blind. The Lord lifts up those who are bowed down;     the Lord loves the righteous. 9 The Lord watches over the strangers;     he upholds the orphan and the widow,     but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin. 10 The Lord will reign forever,     your God, O Zion, for all generations. Praise the Lord!

Happy Are We! by Joey Capuano

What can the world use a lot more of right now? Happiness! The Reading for this coming Sunday, Cantata Sunday, is Psalm 166: 5 - 10, and I wanted to take this opportunity to write an acrostic poem with HAPPY that uses this Psalm as inspiration.

Hope, in our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, as His Birth is approaching!

A breath of relief from all of our challenges, no longer encroaching.

Pure peace that only God can supply.

Perfectly given to you and I

Yes, Lord, we thank you, we praise you, we love you. Yes Lord, there is nobody above you.

 

Amen!

 

I have always loved when my teachers would have us write acrostic poems. They really bring out my imagination! And, what better time to live with the imagination of children again than Advent time? Although we are told as adults that "imagination is not real," this isn't true. To quote one of my favorite movies, The Santa Claus, "Seeing isn't believing. Believing is seeing." What does that mean? I think it means that, when we truly believe, we truly see things. Yes, the line in this movie was referring to Santa Claus. But, Saint Nicholas is celebrating the Birth of the Christ-child! What else is something that we cannot see, but still believe? Our Faith.

 

Through imagination, with its parallels to taking a leap of Faith, we can have that feeling of Hope that we can only get from Jesus.