BOB
Good morning. Christmas is almost here. Lights and Christmas trees,
creches and garlands, glitter and sparkle abound all over Meridian.
It truly is a wonderful time of the year. But as we near Christmas day
we should also focus on what is real about Christmas.
Electric lights and glitter are 20th century inventions.
Christmas trees and lighted candles are 19th century additions
to Christmas. The first Creche is credited to St. Francis of Assisi
in the 13th century.
None of the sparkle and celebration was a part of the first Christmas.
Even the two supernatural phenomena from the Biblical accounts - the
angels appearance and the star the wise men followed - were so subtle
as to be noticed by only a few.
This is Bob Peden of Central United Methodist Church. Read the nativity
stories fresh again. I believe you will be struck, as I have, by the
truly amazing fact that God himself choose to enter our world in a most
common and ordinary way.
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