We pray a beautiful Christmastide for you all.  Here’s a link to a YouTube Christmas music collection I’ve been enjoying all week.  

And here’s a wonderful internet excerpt Fritzi Fleck found and shared, a meditation on the conjunction earlier this week:

“In the year when Jesus was born, there was violence, chaos, political and social unrest. It was dark.  

The Magi found him by the star, which was the “meeting” of 3 stars: Jupiter, Saturn and Mars… In a time where it was dark, Light was brought to our world. Jesus stepped into the chaos and brought peace.

Fast forward to this week’s Winter Solstice…It’s a time of violence, chaos, political and social unrest… How fitting that we get to see this beautiful reminder. Even in the darkest of times, Light will and HAS  stepped in. In our chaos, he is there. In our darkest time, He is there. He brings LIGHT and makes all things new.”  

(Thanks to Fritzi for sending that on via Joan.)

In Christ’s Peace and Light,
Pastor Jacki