Then shalt thou go on forward from thence, and thou shalt come to the plain of Tabor, and there shall meet thee three men going up to God to Bethel, one carrying three kids, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine.” – (1 Samuel 10:3)
“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)
“O come, O come, Immanuel,and ransom captive Israel. That mourns in lonely exile here until the Son of God appear. Rejoice! Rejoice! Immanuel shall come to you, O Israel.” – (JM Neale)
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)