A Feast of Christmas
Enjoy these goodies.
JG and AG links
A Sacramental Christmas — perhaps the best thing I’ve managed to write.
I Dreamt I Lived a Christmas Life
Today is the Feast of the Holy Innocents, Silent Night 1914 , The Slaughter of the Innocents,and Falls, Gardens, Deaths — four reflection on tragedy and sadness at Christmas time.
Helpless as a Baby and Helpless as a Child–what we learn from Christ taking on the feeble helplessness of an infant.
How we are Mary and Overlooked Christmas Scriptures and We are Joseph and Mary and Holding the Messiah–four essays on being a father or a mother or a recipient of revelation. See also this brief meditation on the comparison between Mary and the tree of life.
Tithing Settlement 2008 and The Feast of Saint Tithing Settlement.
Other Christmas Favorites
All six verses of Silent Night
Believing in Santa Claus and The Christmas Dress and Worshipping on Christmas Eve— (Russell Arben Fox)
Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus
Christmas Bells, by Longfellow
Behold the Condescension of God! and O Tannenbaum (the Fowles Brothers)
Two Christmas Poems (Kristine H.)
The Best of Times, the Worst of Times — some of the comments especially are painful and eye-opening
My Testimony, Christmas Morning
The Christmas story from Little House on the Prairie.
President Uchtdorf’s talk You Matter to Him. It is not a Christmas talk on its face. What it is is a meditation that starts with the brilliance of the night stars and moves to the paradox of the nothingness of man and the glory of man. I’ve read it a couple of times, and as I’ve done so, I’ve found myself thinking about a cold night with one brilliant star shining over the God of creation laying helpless in a manger.
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Bruce Charlton
December 25, 2013
Happy Christmas Adam – I have appreciated getting to know you (or your writing persona) this year – both here and at my blog.
And I also believe that Father Christmas is true – this comes through most strongly when I hear people dismissing him scornfully.
This is well worth buying:
http://notionclubpapers.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/review-of-father-christmas-letters.html
G.
December 25, 2013
Merry Christmas to you, Bruce C., and to all the regulars and good folks.
Vader
December 26, 2013
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you, Adam, and to Bruce C., and to other various and sundry.
Annie
December 20, 2014
I have enjoyed your posts this year. Any possibility some of these broken links could be fixed? I’d love to read through them all.
G.
December 20, 2014
Your humble servant, Ma’am.
Annie
December 20, 2014
Many thanks, kind sir! And may you and yours have a very Happy Christmas.
Edje Jeter
December 21, 2014
Cheers, mate.