Calvin Synod Herald, 1979 (79. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)

1979-11-01 / 11-12. szám

REFORMÁTUSOK LAPJA

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LET US LIVE CHRISTMAS EVERY DAY

Christmas is more than a day at the end of the year,

More than a season of joy and good cheer, Christmas is really God’s pattern for living To be followed all year by unselfish giving .. .

For the holiday season awakens good cheer And draws us closer to those we hold dear,

And we open our hearts and find it is GOOD To live among men AS WE ALWAYS SHOULD ... But as soon as the tinsel is stripped from the tree The spirit of Christmas fades silently Into the background of daily routine And is lost in the whirl of life’s busy scene,

And all unawares we miss and forego The greatest blessing that mankind can know ... For if we lived Christmas each day, as we should,

And made it our aim to always do good,

We’d find the lost key to meaningful living That comes not from GETTING, but from unselfish GIVING.

Helen Steiner Rice

LOOKING FOR CHRISTMAS

L. Matthew 2:1-9 T. Matthew 2:2

It must have occured to you more than once that if those wise men from the east were to visit one of our cities today, they would very likely ask the same question which they put to the people of Jerusalem almost two thousand years ago: “Where is He that is born King of the Jews?’’ The setting would be different, but the question would be equally appropriate, for the Christmas King is not easy to find today.

You recall that those wise men had made their long journey to the holy city after seeing that remarkable star which told them about the birth of Christ. Naturally they assumed that the whole city would be celebrating the event. Imagine their surprise when they discovered that Jerusalem was totally unaware of it. There was no celebration, nobody was talking about it. In fact there was no sign that people knew what had happened to them. They couldn’t answer the question of the wise men. They probably looked at each other in amazement, wondering what these strangers were talking about.