Christmastide and Epiphany
Illuminated by
the Star, traditional Nativity images include Mary and the Christ child,
the stable and
creche, ox and ass and the distant approach of the Magi.
At right, the
Holy Spirit descends symbolically as a dove over Christ's baptismal
waters.
With You I Am Well Pleased (Luke 3:22) is one of seven
Sanctuary Stained-Glass Windows
designed by David Hetland for
Trinity Lutheran Church, Jamestown, North
Dakota.
11On entering the house, they saw the
child with Mary his mother; and they knelt down and paid him homage. Then,
opening their treasure chests, they offered him gifts of gold, frankincense, and
myrrh. 12And having been warned in a dream not to
return to Herod, they left for their own country by another road.
Matthew 2:1-12
Three Kings, by Joseph Christian
Leyendecker
Cover of
Success Magazine, 1900
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
It is
possible to believe that all the past is but
the
beginning of
a beginning,
and
that all that is and has been is but
the
twilight of the dawn.
~
H.G. Wells
The object of
a new year is not that we should have a new year.
It is that we
should have a new soul.
~ G.K. Chesterton
Poppet
Poppet is a
pretty Abyssinian who
came to
live with me for two months!
(Picture
taken at her parents' house)
The dam at
Evergreen Lake
Brrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!
A New Year's
Prayer
May God make your year a happy one!
Not by shielding you from
all sorrows and pain,
But by strengthening you to bear it, as it
comes;
Not by making your path easy,
But by making you sturdy to travel
any path;
Not by taking hardships from you,
But by taking fear from your
heart;
Not by granting you unbroken sunshine,
But by keeping your face
bright, even in the shadows;
Not by making your life always pleasant,
But
by showing you when people and their causes need you most,
and by making you
anxious to be there to help.
God's love, peace, hope and joy to you for the
year ahead.
Anonymous
January 1, 2006
First Sunday after Christmas
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Madonna and Child
with Bird, 1765,
by Peruvian artist Ignacio Chacón,
has
been chosen by the United States Postal Service for its
2006 commemorative
Christmas postage stamp!!!
Denver Art Museum
Balthasar, Gaspar,
Melchior
First
Sunday after Christmas
Isaiah 61:10-62:3
Psalm 148:1-14
Galatians
4:4-7
Luke 2:22-40
Epiphany of the Lord Lectionary:
Isaiah
60:1-6
Psalm 72:1-7, 10-14
Ephesians 3:1-12
Matthew
2:1-12
