Birth of Christ Through Their Eyes - Mary and Joseph
The days and weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas are my favorite time of year. I love the food , fellowship, music, decorations, gift giving... I love it all! However, as Christians we know that the reason for the celebration is the birth of Christ. I love reading the Christmas story from Matthew and Luke’s gospels any time of year, but during this season when we have set aside a special day to celebrate His birth, I love to meditate on it, to imagine what it might have been like to have been a participant in the events that surrounded the birth of our Savior. For the next few weeks, we will be looking at the Christmas story from the perspective of those who were there. I will use Scripture, my research of Jewish culture, and a bit of my own internal dialog to help us to put ourselves in the place of those who had a bird's eye view into this amazing, miraculous event that changed the world! ...