Christmas – Yesteryear and This Year

Be blessed in Christ today and for all eternity as you contemplate the story told here; each chapter the work of a different author, yet bound together in Jesus Christ.

Linking Past, Present, and Future

What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace.” -Agnes M. Pharo.

Tenderness for Christmas Past

Good news from heaven the angels bring,
Glad tidings to the earth they sing:
To us this day a child is given,
To crown us with the joy of heaven.

Martin Luther

Courage for Christmas Today

In all the humility, gaiety, gratitude, fear, vigilance and drama of this Christmas and Advent season, remember the defiance and offense of the Christ child who was born in the cave to conquer the world. As Christians celebrating the Incarnation and coming of the cosmic King, we are God’s outlaws.

Patrick Poole, 2005  (Freelance writer and political analyst.)

Hope for Christmas Future

A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes… and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Christmas Past

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Agnes M. Pharo is another enigma of the quoted world. There is no information readily available about her.

Special thanks to dailychristianquote.com for a few of the lesser known quotes I’ve banked this Christmas.

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