How to have the Christmas Spirit.

Currier and Ives are known for their depiction of events of days past and in particular the winter scenes. What began as a lithograph business for news items soon became known as an avenue to present current events through the use of paintings reproduced for the buying public. Today, the winter scenes are sought after and….

Currier and Ives are known for their depiction of events of days past and in particular the winter scenes. What began as a lithograph business for news items soon became known as an avenue to present current events through the use of paintings reproduced for the buying public. Today, the winter scenes are sought after and….

reproduced on Christmas cards that we send and receive. How quickly we tend to relate what are the winter scenes of snow, gasoline lanterns, horse drawn sleighs, churches dressed in their finest greenery, carolers dressed in topcoats or cape dressed women to what Christmas is supposed to be today.

 But, long before Currier and Ives, God provided is His own “courier” in the man, Dr. Luke, chosen for his observant eye and ear. As his letter opens, Dr. Luke records these words: I am writing “an orderly account…so that you/we may know for certain” what the first Christmas was really like.   Walk with your eyes and ears through his visual imagery of bustling Jerusalem to a small insignificant town called Nazareth and from there to the hill country and later to the tiny settlement called Bethlehem OR watch it on the Christmas DVD on the Birth of Jesus.

This is a reminder that God uses men of all walks of life to record His story so that all may know Him and His plan. Am I recording His story in my life and passing it on to my children and those God has placed in my path.