For Unto Us A Child Is Born - One Solitary Life

Of all of our Nativities, this one is my favorite. 

This was taken when our youngest was just a

baby and these are our five children. He

is 16 now.

This Nativity was given to us by dear friends and

has an honored place under our tree each year.

We brought this Nativity home with us from

Jerusalem.

My oldest daughter presented me with

these one year from the whole family

to thank me for all that I do for

them to make Christmas special.

One Solitary Life

He was born in an obscure village, a child of a peasant woman.
He worked in a carpenter shop until He was thirty.
Then became an itinerant preacher.
He never wrote a book.
He never held an office.
He never did one thing that usually accompanies greatness.
He had no credentials but himself.

While still a young man, public opinion turned against him.
His friends ran away.
One denied him.

He went through the mockery of a trial.
He was nailed to a cross between two thieves.
His executioners gambled for His only piece of property - His coat.
He was laid in a borrowed grave.

Nineteen wide centuries have come and gone.
Today He is the centerpiece of the human race.

All the armies that ever marched,
All the navies that ever sailed,
All the parliaments that ever sat,
And all the kings that ever reigned, put together,
have not affected the life of man upon this earth as powerfully as that

                                ONE SOLITARY LIFE

This is my beautiful print of the Wise Men

that we bring out each

Christmas by Tom duBois.

  My husband and I bought

it for each other one year.

These are Steinbach nutcracker wisemen

that I gave to myself this year. I found

them at Tuesday Morning.

For unto us a child is born,

Unto us a son is given

And his name shall be called,

Wonderful

Counselor

The Mighty God

The Everlasting Father

The Prince of Peace

A beautiful Liz Lemon Swindle print

that I received as a giveaway this

year.

May the joy of this season resound

throught the year.

Merry  Christmas!

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