All it takes are some lights…

or maybe Jesus, Mary and Joseph bathed in spotlights….

Of course, some sticky snow plastered on trees…

For folks to say something like, “It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

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Then again…

Way back, in the fullness of time, when everything was just right…

When the Creator of all that there is came to live among us…

To be our Savior…

He kind of snuck in…

No hoopla… except…

There were the angels announcing…

To the shepherds watching their flocks…

And, of course the magi ambling in on their unique mode of transportation…

To a dusty little town in Palestine…

No lights. No snow.

No one saying that it sure looks like Christmas.

Looks are deceiving. For back then…

Christ the Savior was born, Emmanuel, God with us! Glory to God!

Today’s gift!