Word Sharpeners News: I hope you’re all ready for Christmas. I am. I thought I’d share a few of my favorite Christmas things with you.
My favorite movie: It’s a Wonderful Life
My favorite Christmas novel/story: The Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
My favorite contemporary Christmas carol: Breathe of Heaven
My favorite old Christmas hymn: O Holy Night
My favorite fun Christmas song: Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer.
My favorite Christmas tree: artificial green spruce with colored lights
My favorite Christmas dinner: roast beef, mashed potatoes, noodles, gravy, corn, dinner rolls, and chocolate birthday cake for desert.
Find my guest blog posts on these sites:
Colonial Quills: Christmas at Schoebrunn in 1773
Tiaras and Tennis Shoes: Moravian Christmas Traditions
Picture of the Week: This picture is of my Christmas putz.
This is the Moravian Star on top of my Christmas tree.
And here’s my tree all lit up.
Verse of the Week: Luke 2:1-21 (ESV)
In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of Syria. And all went to be registered, each to his own town. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David, to be registered with Mary, his betrothed,[b] who was with child. And while they were there, the time came for her to give birth. And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling cloths and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn.
And in the same region there were shepherds out in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were filled with great fear. And the angel said to them, “Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. And this will be a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger.” And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased!”
When the angels went away from them into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us.” And they went with haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby lying in a manger. And when they saw it, they made known the saying that had been told them concerning this child. And all who heard it wondered at what the shepherds told them. But Mary treasured up all these things, pondering them in her heart. And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen, as it had been told them. And at the end of eight days, when he was circumcised, he was called Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.
Video of the Week: Social Network Christmas
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