Dec 4th 2007 09:41 am Advent
Christmas is my favorite holiday. (However, this does NOT mean I like Christmas music. I think there are only about 10 Christmas songs, and every radio station plays them over and over and over…)
As a kid, I am ashamed to say, more often then not it was all about the gifts. Even then, however, I felt especially happy in a candlelight service, the bells, the darkly lit church with the candle flames flickering, the story of the angels appearing to the shepherds, bringing them “…good tidings of great joy, which shall be for all people…”.
Even now, much more conscious of issues of scholarship and source material, I prefer to hear the Christmas story in the archaic, yet strongly poetic language of the King James Version.
Two different friends of mine are committing to blog daily throughout the advent season, with their thoughts and reflections on what they read that day. You may enjoy following along with them.
Chad (Fellow Mergian)