Joseph the Carpenter had waited. He had waited to marry Mary. Although she was young, Joseph saw that Mary was good and kind and true, and he loved her. So he waited until she was older. They became engaged. And Joseph was very happy. Then Joseph heard something that made him unhappy. Mary was going [...]
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Christmas Creche: December 23-Joseph
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Christmas Creche: December 22-The Donkey
Posted in advent, Children, Christmas, tagged Christmas, creche, donkey on December 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The donkey was sure he did not have to wait for his days of glory. He was in them. He worked for a carpenter named Joseph in a town called Nazareth. The donkey carried whatever Joseph told him to carry: sacks of cement, baskets of bricks, tall piles of wood. He worked very hard and [...]
Christmas Creche: December 19, The Ox
Posted in advent, Children, tagged advent, creche, Ox, waiting on December 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In the stable, there lived an ox. He was the innkeeper’s ox. He had hauled the mud for the bricks of the inn. He had borne the water up from the well. He carried bundles and packages and pulled carts. He had been very busy. He was not so busy now, but he did the [...]
Christmas Creche: December 18–The Stable
Posted in advent, Children, tagged advent, Children, Christmas, creche, nativity on December 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In the beginning, there was a stable, a small stable with a palm tree in front that sat behind an inn on the edge of a town called Bethlehem. Bethlehem was a tiny town on the way to the big city of Jerusalem. Bethlehem had been the home of Israel’s mighty King David, but not [...]
Advent=Waiting for Jesus: Counting with the Creche
Posted in advent, Children on December 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Do you have a creche, a nativity scene, a belen in your house? If so, not only do you have a thing of beauty, you have a good way to introduce even small children to the Christmas story in a very concrete fashion. Many families hide baby Jesus until 25th (or the evening of the [...]
