For the first time in 30 years, our Christmas was going to be spent without children. I wondered if Christmas even could be Christmas without most of the people I love, without our traditions and gatherings and togetherness. Because that is what Christmas feels like, isn’t it? The gathering and the together, with the special, …
I wonder what the shepherds who saw the angel and hosts of heaven thought about the message they received the night Christ was born. Did they immediately recognize the significance of what was happening? Consider why the Savior of the world would be found lying in a manger? Did they question whether or not it …
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 …
‘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, …
“And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.” (Luke 2:13-14) That heavenly host may simply have been expressing their hopes for the world that beautiful night when Christ was born. Because neither …
