The Light of all People
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into
being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come
into being in him was life, and the life was the light of all
people.
The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not
overcome it. There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. He came as a
witness to testify to the light, so that all might believe through him. He
himself was not the light, but he came to testify to the light. The true
light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world.] He was in the
world, and the world came into being through him; yet the world did not know
him. He came to what was his own, and his own people did not accept him. But to
all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children
of God, who were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will
of man, but of God. And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have
seen his glory, the glory as of a father's only son, full of grace and truth.
(John testified to him and cried out, "This was he of whom I said, 'He
who comes after me ranks ahead of me because he was before me.'") From his
fullness we have all received, grace upon grace. The law indeed was given
through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. No one has ever seen
God. It is God the only Son, who is close to the Father's heart, who has made
him known.
John 1: [1-9] 10-18
Witness of that Light
© Jan L.
Richardson
"Light
shimmers through the gospel reading ... the stunning prologue to the
gospel of John."
See
also:
An
Illuminated Joy: A Christmas Book of Hours
by artist Jan L. Richardson and singer/songwriter
Garrison Doles
Words which do not give the light of Christ
increase the darkness.
~ Mother
Teresa
Year's
end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on,
with
all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. *
~ Hal
Borland
New
Year's Eve
Skate the Lake was a great success on New Year's
Eve.
BUT... we were snugly inside
having dinner with a lovely view of the
skaters!!!
We also had
a marvelous view of the early fireworks at eight
o'clock.
Dee and
Randy
Randy and
Kimra
Anne and
Mark
Marsha
Double
WOW!!!
Todd,
Carolyn, Bill
Open House on
New Year's Day at the Linke's.
Deborah is on
the right, Harold was hiding.
Emerson,
their grandson, was a big hit!
The Ice
Sculptures from New Year's Eve
still
looked quite good on Saturday morning.
Happy
2010!!!
Faith is the strength by which
a shattered world shall emerge into the
light.
~ Helen Keller
January 3,
2010 Second Sunday after Christmas Day
* used three years
ago
In the beginning
was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the
beginning with God. All things came into being through him, and without him not
one thing came into being. What has come into being in him was life, and the
life was the light of all people.
John1:1-18
Agnus Day, by James
Wetzstein
Jeremiah 31:7-14
Psalm 147:12-20
Ephesians 1:3-14
John 1:(1-9) 10-18
I wish that
there were some wonderful place
Called the Land of Beginning Again
Where
all of our mistakes, and all of our heartaches,
And all of our poor, selfish
grief
Could be dropped like a shabby old coat at the door
And never be put
on again.
~ Louisa Fletcher Tarkington
