prologue for 2010

Christmas is coming , and my desire to try and write an advent devotional that fills my needs and desires has awoken.  The dark mornings and the coming holiday fill me with a longing to persue, to understand, to experience what Christmas really is. And for me that is the Christmas Story..the whole story.  Long ago I read Two From Galilee  by Marjorie Holmes( a book I highly recommend) and the story became alive for me. Mary and Joseph were really human beings just like me and they had no idea what was really going on.  I want to try and explore their experience from my perspective, in a highly imaginative way.  Perhaps it will help you to connect to the story and the season .