A Christmas Scene

Around midnight on Christmas Eve our house gets very quiet.  By then, our boys are in bed, and it is time to lock the doors and turn out the lights.  That’s when I pause for just a minute to listen to the silence.

The lights on the tree don’t make a sound.  All the gifts are wrapped, the food is prepared, the stores are all closed, and a few coals are still glowing in the fireplace—Christmas has arrived.

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A Reason to Celebrate

Christmas is this Saturday. Can you believe it?

The hands on the clock definitely speed up as you get older.  It doesn’t seem like it was all that long ago that we were mapping out our plan for 2010, and now here we are, 2010 practically finished and 2011 upon us. I know it won’t be much longer before we’re talking about 2012 and our plans for it.

I do want to pause for a moment, however, to remind you about something that happened 2,000 years ago.

A baby was born in a stable in an insignificant province of the Roman Empire.

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