Just look at Him. He doesn’t look very remarkable lying there in the straw. He seems very much as any other newborn ~ red and wrinkled and making sucking motions with His tiny mouth in His sleep. Just the same,…
A Meditation for Christmas Day
Tag: suffering
Prophecies of Christ’s Birth ~ revisited, part III
Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. For this reason also, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above…
Prophecies of Christ’s Birth ~ revisited
As I open my Bible to the Old Testament, my heart skips a beat. My first class in Old Testament in seminary whether from the professor’s compassionate homilies or just reading the text, was the beginning, the spark, that caused…
Walls
For the past few weeks I have been sidelined with yet another arthritic flare. It has made it hard to do much but sit with a heating pad. Among other things to pass the time, I have been watching YouTube…
Joy in the Mourning
By Katie Heid Tragedy is not a respecter of time or convenience. It laughs off age and ability and snubs its nose at our carefully laid plans. It does not care whether we are “ready” or whether we’ve said all…