“To perceive Christmas through its wrapping becomes more difficult with every year.”
- E. B. White
This year I understood what E.B. White was saying. Shopping for gifts and sitting through traffic gave me the feeling that somehow we were missing the obvious point. It’s like asking everyone to ignore a beautiful centerpiece in the [...]
Archive > December 2005
Emmanuel
christmas eve
“The time draws near the birth of Christ:
The moon is hid;
the night is still;
The Christmas bells from hill to hill
Answer each other in the mist”
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
imago Deo
“So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.”
(Genesis 1:27, ESV)
“Then the LORD God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.”
(Genesis 2:7, ESV)
Image of God.
Dust from the [...]
Jason Barmer
