I have a wee bit of a diary I keep. These are some of my scribblings from Christmases past.
Merry Christmas 2011. Christ is King.
My young adult Catechism / Worldview class gave me a wonderful Christmas gift. They have me a grey hooded sweatshirt that says on the front, “McAtee University,” with the two words separated by a University insignia.
So very cool!
On this Christmas, we have had once again the reminder of the comfort of Christ. Now let us be a warrior assembly and risk all for the Great King in light of that comfort.
He by whom all things were made was made one of all things. The Son of God by the Father without a mother became the Son of man by a mother without a father. The Word Who is God before all time became flesh at the appointed time. The maker of the sun was made under the sun. He Who fills the world lay in a manger, great in the form of God but tiny in the form of a servant; this was in such a way that neither was His greatness diminished by His tininess nor was His tininess overcome by His greatness.
(St. Augustine, Sermon 187)
There is the same hope this Christmas day, and the same reason to be encouraged as there was the day before the Birth of Christ. God has not forgotten His people and He still intends to “Holpen His People, Israel.” God still intends to pull down the wicked mighty and to raise up His people. We still live in a time of “Glad tidings and Great joy.”
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It’s Eggnog and Booty
And time with my Cutie
This festive time of the year
What I am after
Is grandchildren laughter
And Steins full of dark beer
Christmas is the proclamation that the old gods have been shown the door.
“Maker of the sun, He is made under the sun. In the Father, He remains, from His mother He goes forth. Creator of heaven and earth, He was born on earth under heaven. Unspeakably wise, He is wisely speechless. Filling the world, He lies in a manger. Ruler of the stars, He nurses at His mother’s bosom. He is both great in the nature of God and small in the form of a servant.”
Augustine of Hippo
Merry Christmas — 2014
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National Lampoon Christmas — 2015
And so wanes Christmas 2015
survived with amphetamines
And ample strong liquoring
to ward off the bickering
Sobering now with caffeine
Christmas @ 0300. 2015
May we, as a people, always have a reason to argue with each other (Covenanters vs. non-Covenanters) over whether we should celebrate Christmas. May there always be enough of us on each side of the question to make the discussion interesting. May our grandchildren not grow up wondering what it would mean to celebrate the birth of Christ.
Merry Christmas.
Christmas 2016
Merry Christmas to you Old Narnians out there. We remember the old ways before the Calomarines (Cultural Marxists) took over.
Christmas 2017
I always wonder what my Grand sires were thinking on Christmas day when they were my age … say 100 years ago?
And I wonder what my great Grandchildren will be thinking about on Christmas day 100 years from now.
Time … keeps rolling like a river
