Christmas daybook, 7: I am the light of the world

My Christmas daybook for these 12 days of celebrating. Join me, won't you? (see all of the Christmas daybook posts from 2014 here)

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look

Merry Christmas from Trent Elders on Vimeo.

Colored Pencil Drawings in Circles of Darkness

Six and seven-year-old students at Church of the Servant, Grand Rapids, MI

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read

John 8:12-19: I am the light of the world

{all readings for the day: Psalm 148; 1 Kings 3:5-14; John 8:12-19 }

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pray 

O God, you make us glad by the yearly festival of the birth of your only Son Jesus Christ: Grant that we, who joyfully receive him as our Redeemer, may with sure confidence behold him when he comes to be our Judge; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. (source)

Even so, come Lord Jesus! Amen.

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listen

O Nata Lux 
("O Light Born of Light", translation here)

Thomas Tallis

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do

walk outside after dark, seeking light (like this luminaria in our neighborhood)

12 ways to savor the 12 days of Christmas

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