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A Final Christmas Gift?

12/27/2015

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Christmas is a season that begins on Christmas Day.  It is a season of celebration, a "feast". Advent, the month preceding Christmas, is considered a "fasting" season. Christmas arrives and we celebrate ("feast") for twelve days (two Sundays).  It is difficult to quiet the commercialism which accompanies Advent. However, a quietness can emerge afterward which we can receive as one final gift.

In this spirit, I share a video capturing rarely heard voices -  Christians in the middle east who have celebrated the "Feast of the Nativity" since Christ was in their midst.  Beautiful images accompany the hymn.  

We watched this together today at FBC, the first Sunday of Christmas. A group of thirty sat in a circle, sang, prayed, heard readings, and enjoyed this video.  Sung in Arabic and including an English translation, it felt especially poignant this year.  

Enjoy. May it be a final Christmas gift to you. It is to me.

Share you thoughts in the comments about Christmas.

Merry Christmas!

- Sean
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1 Comment
Melissa
12/27/2015 03:10:38 pm

Watching this brilliant video brings Christmas to me.
That surprising, subtle, gentle beautiful, gift. ...not generic, not disembodied, but unique. ...rising in a particular place, a particular time, a particular language, a particular young couple, a particular mother, a particular baby.
Unique.
"He whose essence none can touch
is bound in swaddling clothes as a child."
I'm wonderstruck.

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