I said yesterday I may take a break from writing, to be still, to savor the preparation, to enter in...but I read this today and thought you might want to rest with me knowing --
"'The whole of Christ's life was a continual passion; others dies martyrs, but Christ was born a martyr. He found Golgotha, where he was crucified, even in Bethlehem, where he was born; for to his tenderness then the straws were almost as sharp as the thorns after, and the manger as uneasy at first as the cross at last. His birth and his death were but one continual act, and his Christmas Day and his Good Friday are but the evening and the morning of one and the same day. From the creche to the cross is an inseparable line. Christmas only points forward to Good Friday and Easter. It can have no meaning apart from that, where the Son of God displayed his glory by his death.'
Grace is a person; Truth is a person--Jesus, come to you in the flesh."
~Tabernacled Among Us, Joseph Ryan, reprinted in Come Thou Long Expected Jesus
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. ~ John 1:14
Come, Lord Jesus. Come.
I have a whole new budget category. It's called "books Karli reads." Because your choices never fail to thrill me, too, even if I take a little longer to get through them. Thank you! I have an exciting post to put up... Hang on, don't check out yet... :)
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