From Cradle to Grave and Beyond
As we prepare for Christmas, I wonder what you’re having to make room for. Are you having to make space in a bedroom for extra guests or an extra chair or several at your table? Are you rearranging your furniture to make room for a Christmas tree or even rearranging your outdoor planters to make room for a blow up snowman or Santa? I wonder if you have time, or consciously make room, for pondering what Christmas is about? This year, somewhere between the tinsel and the turkey, or maybe in the days between year end and year beginning, I invite you to make room for pondering Christ Jesus. This is after all what many Christians around the world do during Advent. They intentionally stop and take a pause to remember that first Christmas, which reminds them that Jesus is the Christ child that gave us Christmas. But why does it matter today, 2,000 plus years later? I’m looking forward to Christmas 2022. It seems so much more hopeful than recent years where the threat of death from a