Vacation is...
...treats.
...family and special foods.
...year-end bookkeeping.
...extra sleep.
...time to read.
...season's-end Julekakke.
...friends and games.
...loads of laundry.
...twinkling lights and tinsel.
...cross-country skiing.
...hot tea.
...Mt. Clothes-to-Iron.
...mounds of dishes.
Christmas is...
... Immanuel, "God with Us."
“I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the
people. Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ
the Lord. This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths
and lying in a manger” (Luke 2:10-12).
“[Christ Jesus], being in very nature God, did not consider
equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the
very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in
appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death – even death
on a cross! Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name
that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in
heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus
Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father” (Philippians 2:6-11).
