Spiritual Reflections on Christ's Birth: A Celebration of Middle Eastern Canticles
A simple story about an illuminating Christmas Eve in the Midwest that can help us understand the love God shows us through Christ's life on earth
Open one of these gifts each day of the Christmas Season and discover a practice that celebrates God's love and the joy of Jesus' birth.
Christmas is not just a day or even a season of the year—an event on the calendar that arrives and passes. No, Christmas is much more than that. It is a permanent change that enters into our world for keeps.
Christmas reminds us that God became a human being just like us, with eyes and ears, with a mouth and hands, with a heart and feet. Share these prayers from children in celebration of God's presence with us and love for all people.
Finding God in the Eyes of a Child
Underneath all of the busyness, the rushing, the effervescence of the holidays, there is the mystery of infinite love, waiting to take flesh yet again, to surprise us, to remind us of the hope and the promise that comes in the stable in Bethlehem, in the stable of our own hearts, in the stillness of the winter night.
"God loves us so much that in order to communicate with us, God has spoken in our language, the language we can understand, the language of being human."
"I don’t really know how to engage Jesus, the infant, or even Jesus, the toddler. And aside from the theological and incarnational implications involved, I can’t even get excited about His ever having been such. I just want to rush through all that stuff and get to the Man…"
Spiritual Reflections on Christ's Birth: A Celebration of Middle Eastern Canticles
A simple story about an illuminating Christmas Eve in the Midwest that can help us understand the love God shows us through Christ's life on earth
Open one of these gifts each day of the Christmas Season and discover a practice that celebrates God's love and the joy of Jesus' birth.
Christmas is not just a day or even a season of the year—an event on the calendar that arrives and passes. No, Christmas is much more than that. It is a permanent change that enters into our world for keeps.
Prayers for Living: Christmas Prayers
Christmas reminds us that God became a human being just like us, with eyes and ears, with a mouth and hands, with a heart and feet. Share these prayers from children in celebration of God's presence with us and love for all people.
Guided Prayer in Text and Audio
Underneath all of the busyness, the rushing, the effervescence of the holidays, there is the mystery of infinite love, waiting to take flesh yet again, to surprise us, to remind us of the hope and the promise that comes in the stable in Bethlehem, in the stable of our own hearts, in the stillness of the winter night.
