We are blessed, really. Even though we intentionally had a down-sized bounty under the tree this year, we were overwhelmed with the generosity of friends and family. I don’t want to disparage any of the amazing and thoughtful gifts we received this Christmas, but I would like to highlight some of the creative homemade ones. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Christmas’
24 Dec
An Agrarian Christmas
And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. – Luke 2:8 Though we grew up hearing this verse that starts the story of the first visitors to Christ’s birth, the only concept we had about what shepherds were in that time were idealized images of pastel-robed [...]
A Joyful Birth