Christmas Day II

“Did you find what you were looking for?” You have likely heard this phrase uttered many times over these past few weeks during Christmas shopping forays. It’s rather ubiquitous, isn’t it? “Did you find what you were looking for?” Most of the time, you likely answered, “Yes, thank you,” or perhaps you inquired about something…

People spend a lot of time waiting: we wait for services to be delivered, we wait in line to be served at the post office and the bank, and we wait for next year, hoping perhaps it will be better, and possibly fearful that it won’t be. “Waiting for the other shoe to drop” is…

At last we come to the manger. We come to remember and to celebrate and give thanks for the new thing that our God has done for us in Jesus Christ. We come to remember and celebrate how God, the Creator of the Universe, came to be with us so that we might know that…