Wishing everyone a Happy Christmas from our Family to Yours! May the TRUE meaning of Christmas dwell in your hearts not only during this time but throughout the year and beyond.
These images of the season (some recently taken, some in the past years), I share with you with the intention of sending hope in spite of whatever we are all going through. Be blessed.
Mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance. ~Jude 1:12
Illustration by my 13 year-old - not a photograph but you can see me in the reflection with my camera taking a shot.
She wrapped Him in cloths and placed Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn. ~Luke 2:7
The Manger Ship: my 8 year-old son's version of the manger scene with Clones as guardian angels.
The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a Son, and they will call Him Immanuel which means, 'God with us'. ~Matthew 1:23
So they hurried off and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby, who was lying in the manger. ~Luke 2:16
There has been only one Christmas - the rest are anniversaries. ~W.J. Cameron
Happy Birthday, Jesus!
Decorating a gingerbread house is magical... the smell... the taste...
the creativity and freedom you feel while building your own, colorful dream home! There's nothing
like it for getting "visions of sugar-plums" dancing around in your head! Building and decorating a
gingerbread house is a wonderful tradition for kids to grow up with. Best of all, it let us
adults rekindle that magic for a little while!
Homeschool Co-Op Christmas Party
Christmas is forever, not for just one day,
for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away
like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf.
The good you do for others is good you do yourself...
~Norman Wesley Brooks,
"Let Every Day Be Christmas," 1976
Christmas
is for children. But it is for grown-ups too. Even if it is a
headache, a chore, and nightmare, it is a period of necessary
defrosting of chill and hide-bound hearts. ~Lenora Mattingly Weber
Tree-trimming at the Murphys
A Christmas candle is a lovely thing;
It makes no noise at all,
But softly gives itself away.
~Eva Logue
Candlelight Service @ Cornerstone
