I’m posting links to the exerpts I posted last year from Philip Yancey’s brilliant book, The Jesus I Never Knew. Because I love Philip Yancey, in case I’ve never mentioned that.
I hope, even if you read them last year, you’ll visit them again to help you get into the spirit of the season. If you’ve never read them, give ’em a try. Yancey really does give a wonderful, totally different perspective on Christmas. Seven parts for the next seven days! (You’d think I’d planned it ‘er somethin’.)
Uh …. oops. There are 8 parts. I am now twirling in a shame spiral brought on by poor planning and misguided boasting about great planning. Well, it’s not really Christmas until someone’s twirling in a shame spiral, right? Fa la la!
I don’t know if I missed some of these last time, but thanks for the opportunity to re-read them. And to lessen your shame, let me tell you that I still haven’t put up my Christmas tree yet and there’s a mountainload of presents needing to be wrapped. Christmas cards that I really need to send b/c nobody has any idea where I am, are looking more like New Year’s cards. Now that’s spiral-worthy shame. 🙂
Well, Kate P, we don’t even HAVE a Christmas tree this year. And I never send out Christmas cards. I suck.
Nah, you don’t suck. I think right about now you’re looking a lot saner than most of miserable people I saw in the department store last night.