“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)
“Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.” (G.K. Chesterton)