Friends, its that time of year when you have a million happy bustling things to do and so, in fear that you might have a free moment, we post our Christmas page.  Please see above in the header bar.  There’s enough there for one or two books, and probably we will publish them, maybe as soon as next year.

May we suggest that you particularly check out our two fairy tales from last year?  Here is a tale of a princess, and here is a tale of a knight.  The first one is in the classic style whereas the second one has more of a Norse flavor.

Merry Christmas!

I personally am grateful for any time you spend here with me this season, and don’t begrudge it at all if the time you have to spare for your JG friends is not as much as you would like.

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I’ve been thinking about Mosiah 15, a sorta mystical chapter about how Jesus is both the Father and the Son.  About the atonement.  And about Christmas.

Children always like stories of when their parents were little.  They eat them up.  They like stories of their parents doing cool stuff a lot, but stories about when their parents were little even better.  I wonder if this has something to do with the popularity of Christmas.

Jesus being born is a fatherly role because showing your children the way is a fatherly role.  Jesus atonement is a fatherly role because claiming a relationship where someone’s successes and failures affect your deeply is a fatherly role, especially if you then claim responsibility to step in to right the failures.

Its no surprise in our age of credentials that a lot of Christians think of salvation as a credential.  It’s just something God gives you.  It’s a database somewhere where God toggles your file from Salvation:hell to Salvation:heaven.

Salvation is a state of being.

Two inmates are in an insane asylum, each claiming to be Napoleon.

One shouts, “I am Napoleon!” and when asked how he knows, replies, “God told me!”

Immediately, another voice from a nearby room shouts,

“I did NOT!”

Napoleon jokes aside, today’s post is how it is possible to delude yourself that you are being humble because you are being realist.  It’s a follow up to this post on gratitude.

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