Friday 25th December - The Manger in my heart.
Read Luke 2:16-21
Every birth is a precious gift of God of someone new in the world; you and I brought a new joy and promise to parents and to the world on our birth. This would be more so in Jesus – the one who saves is the meaning of his name. The world would never be the same because of him, and maybe Mary began to know that when the shepherds came and told her their story.
Cradled in a manger, meanly,
Laid the Son of Man His head;
Sleeping His first earthly slumber
Where the oxen had been fed.
Happy were those shepherds listening
To the holy angel’s word;
Happy they within that stable
Worshipping their infant Lord.
Enter, then, O Christ most holy;
Make a Christmas in my heart;
Make a heaven of my manger:
It is heaven where Thou art.
George Stringer Rowe
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