“This season called Christmas is only a time of remembering ALL of Jesus and His story, past, present and future and celebrating His Conception. We think a lot about the Annunciation and the journey of Mary as she Carried God inside her womb for nine months. What could be more of a miracle than that?? – (Gail Landgraf)
“The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology to an act of culture.”
― (Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto)
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world. – (James 1:27)
“Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.” (G.K. Chesterton)
“God said, “Let there be lights in the dome of the sky to divide the day from the night; let them be for signs, seasons, days and years; and let them be for lights in the dome of the sky to give light to the earth”; and that is how it was.” – (Genesis 1:14)