I had hoped to get this posted yesterday (which was Christmas day for us here in Australia) but the internet has been down. Thankfully it connected up today, and while some of you are perhaps still enjoying your Christmas celebrations, here are some thoughts to ponder...
From In Green Pastures...
On Christ's Birthday
It is Christ's birthday. In among all our festivities should come sweet thoughts of the love of God. The gifts we may receive should make us think of the greatest gift of all - when God gave his Son. Let us all try to make our Christmas very full of memories of Christ. Let the blessed love of Christ make a glad Christmas in our hearts, helping us to be like Christ himself in love, unselfishness, and forgiveness.
Echoing Christmas Songs
What Christ is to us we ought, in our human measure, to be to others. Christmas means love. Christ came to our world to pour divine kindness on weary, needy, perishing human lives. The Christmas spirit in our hearts should send us out on the same errand. There is need everywhere for love's ministry. We should learn the true Christmas lesson of gentle, thoughtful kindness to those we love and to all we meet in life's busy ways.
Christmas Lessons
Christmas should teach us to be Christ to others all about us, that from our very garments may flow the virtue that shall heal and bless all who touch us. There are few people whom God calls to do great things for him, but the best thing most of us can do in this world is to live out a real, simple, beautiful, strong Christian life in our allotted place. Thus in our little measure we shall repeat the life of the Master himself, showing men some feeble reflection of his sweet and loving face, and doing in our imperfect way a few of the lovely things he would do if he were here himself in our place.
"...I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." - John 10:10
The images above are from a lovely Christmas card Denver and Sophie gave me :)
Our Christmas day plans were derailed a bit this year, but "all's well that ends well". I hope I can get an update on before the end of the year if my temperamental internet connection will allow it.
I wish you all the joy and blessings of this Christmas season and leave you with my favorite Christmas song. I post it each year, but this is a version by Lauren Daigle who I have recently discovered.
Enjoy!
xx
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