O Holy Night

Sometimes a subject is so grand, so glorious, so monumental that words alone don’t seem adequate to describe how we feel. Capturing even a glimpse requires more. ‘Joy to the world, the Lord is come.’ ‘He lays His glory by’ and comes to us a babe. Trading dominion and majesty and divinity for utter dependence …

Be it Unto Me

‘Behold the handmaid of the Lord, be it unto me according to thy word’ (Luke 1:38). What was it that allowed Mary to respond in such a way to such an incredible, incomprehensible calling from the Lord? We know little about the facts of Mary’s life. We assume she was a young woman, a teenager, …