Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Day 17 - The Heart



“But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart.” Luke 2:19

This is exactly what Advent is meant to be!

Treasuring, pondering… a matter for the heart.


What allows you to make this practice a priority in the busy Christmas season?

How do you keep this in the forefront of your mind?



THE NATIVITY

Among the oxen (like an ox I’m slow)


I see a glory in the stable grow


Which, with the ox’s dullness might at length


Give me an ox’s strength.

Among the asses (stubborn I as they)

I see my Saviour where I looked for hay;


So may my beastlike folly learn at least


The patience of a beast.

Among the sheep (I like a sheep have strayed)


I watch the manger where my Lord is laid;


Oh that my baa-ing nature would win thence


Some woolly innocence!

~CS Lewis~

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