Merry Christmas!
We celebrate the Light coming into the darkness – Jesus, the Son of God who came to live with us. He who brings peace and love amid fears and anxiety.
May the true hope of Christmas fill you during these very different times.
Tag: Christmas
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Christmas greetings!
By Leo Boucher. Used with permission; all rights reserved. -
Welcoming the Light: Happy Christmas!
In a matter of hours we enter the Christmas season! I love these twelve days when the baking is done, the presents all wrapped and distributed, and we can enjoy time as a family relaxing in front of the tree – or the telly (Call the Midwife, anyone?). We’ve made it through the shortest day, and now journey to the light as we embrace the Light of the world, who has come to distill our darkness.
May you know joy and peace during the Christmas season; may you be renewed in body and spirit as you stop to wonder and marvel at the God who became Man and lived among us.
Happy Christmas!
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Christmas Greetings!
By Leo Boucher. On this Christmas Eve, we wait and watch and wonder. Pondering the gift of Jesus, the Son of God, born a baby. If you are rushed with a long list of tasks to prepare and feeling hassled; if you’re sad because this Christmas feels different because of people not with you; if you feel quiet and grateful and joyful; may the God of wonders, who became Man and lived as one of us, fill you with his presence today and always.
Note on my dad’s watercolor – I asked him (Leo Boucher) to put into paint one of my favorite Christmas decorations in their house, which Dad made some decades ago. It’s a wooden base with the figures of Mary, Joseph, and Jesus cut from a darker wood. I love the simplicity, and how the story comes all back to this.
Happy Christmas!
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The twelfth day of Christmas
Artwork by Leo Boucher. Happy twelfth day of Christmas!
And Jesus will be born in our lives – a thought Adrian Plass observed in his book of the name. How is Jesus being born into your life in the early days of 2017? During this waning Christmas season?
For me, I hope he is being born into my life as I press forward with my writing projects – an MA essay due on Monday that I’ve been flailing around with and some other writing deadlines in the middle of the month. I hope he is being born into my life in my response to our youngest announcing at 2am that she’s been sick – and again at 3.30am and 6.30am. I hope he is being born into my life as I cling to him for meaning, love, and hope.
May he be born into your life this last day of Christmas, before we celebrate Epiphany.
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The Eleventh Day of Christmas
Happy eleventh day of Christmas! I’m so heartened by the number of people who are enjoying my dad’s watercolors. Here’s another landscape – one he sent to me just last night, in fact, which he uses with his art students in the retirement community. For those of you in Minnesota, or able to get there, I think he’s thinking of making some of his work available. I said I want first dibs! 
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The Tenth Day of Christmas
On the tenth day of Christmas… many people return to work and school. Let’s keep the celebrations going in our hearts and homes. For me, I’m dreaming of a Minnesota white Christmas! Artwork by Leo Boucher. -
The ninth day of Christmas
On the ninth day of Christmas… this is when we start to become countercultural, for many people are taking down (or have taken down) their Christmas trees and are embracing new sugar-free regimes of fitness and abstaining from alcohol. But people, we’re still in the season of Christmas! Jesus has come into our lives! Celebrate and rejoice! (Artwork by Leo Boucher) -
Happy Eighth Day of Christmas
Happy new year – and happy eighth day of Christmas! On this first Sunday of the year, we wish you joy and peace and wonder. (Artwork by Leo Boucher.) -
The Seventh Day of Christmas
It’s the seventh day of Christmas, and the skies in Londontown are grey but not as foggy as yesterday. Thinking of the light of Christ who has come into the world, whatever the weather. Artwork by Leo Boucher. -
The Sixth Day of Christmas
Happy sixth day of Christmas! “When they saw the star, they were overjoyed” (Matthew 2:10). Does the sky seem foggy and dark, with no stars out to behold? Praying that the light will shine through the cracks; that the veil will be lifted; that our eyes can see the glory. (Artwork by Leo Boucher.)