Religion

    Joy sometimes comes easily as laughter at this time of year and runs through our days as a golden thread, tying together the pieces of Christmas into a beautiful quilt of love. Our laughter rings out from the songs on the radio to gifts brightly wrapped and placed lovingly under a Christmas tree. Shepherds, angels, and wise men join to tell the story of long ago — a story of great joy, for it was love we received that night — love all wrapped up as a newborn babe, wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger.

    Jesus said to his disciples, ‘Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat, or about your body, what you will wear. For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing. Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds! And can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span of life?’ Luke 12: 22-25

By Edgar Guest

God bless you all this Christmas Day
And drive the cares and griefs away.
Oh, may the shining Bethlehem star
Which led the wise men from afar
Upon your heads, good sirs, still glow
To light the path that ye should go.

As God once blessed the stable grim
And made it radiant for Him;
As it was fit to shield His Son,
May thy roof be a holy one;
May all who come this house to share
Rest sweetly in His gracious care.