Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas, everyone!

Today is the day followers of Jesus have set aside to celebrate, commemorate, and contemplate the awesomeness of what God began so many years ago. To shed the fabric of eternity, step willingly into the shackles of time, and humble himself to be born as one of us, then suffer the living and growing of more than three decades with us ... culminating in the miracle of Easter, where his mission here was completed. Incredible!

"He became what we are that he might make us what he is." (Athanasius of Alexandria)

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CHRISTMAS QUOTATIONS

"Christmas is a time when you get homesick ... even when you're home." (Carol Nelson)

"Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall." (Larry Wilde)

"Christmas is not so much about opening our presents, as opening our hearts." (Janice Maeditare)

"When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?" (G.K. Chesterton)

And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow
Stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so?
It came without ribbons. It came without tags.
It came without packages, boxes, or bags.
And he puzzled and puzzled 'til his puzzler was sore.
Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before.
What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store?
What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more?
-- Theodore Giesel

[selected from The Quote Garden]

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WISDOM for YOUR WEEK: "For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace." (Isaiah 9:6)

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