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friends, i pray that your christmas was merry indeed. we savored our first celebration at home, just the four of us. jim and dylan sang their hearts out at worship on christmas eve, and today was leisurely and lovely here. we opted to read the christmas story at home, snuggled tight, jammie-clad and chins dripping clementine juice.
stockings, crepes, much play, elegant dinner with friends, jim's eggnog and a meandering pursuit of the town's best (worst?) christmas lights rounded out the evening. (and a ryan gosling movie--merry christmas to me!)
as my mother frequently reminds, the 25th is but the first of twelve days of christmas. let the rejoicing continue. the Lord is come!
Then his father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke this prophecy:
‘Blessed be the Lord God of Israel,
for he has looked favorably on his people and redeemed them.
He has raised up a mighty savior for us
in the house of his servant David,
as he spoke through the mouth of his holy prophets from of old,
that we would be saved from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us.
Thus he has shown the mercy promised to our ancestors,
and has remembered his holy covenant,
the oath that he swore to our ancestor Abraham,
to grant us that we, being rescued from the hands of our enemies,
might serve him without fear, in holiness and righteousness
before him all our days.
And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High;
for you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways,
to give knowledge of salvation to his people
by the forgiveness of their sins.
By the tender mercy of our God,
the dawn from on high will break upon us,
to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death,
to guide our feet into the way of peace.’
{Luke 1:67-79}
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