Sure you had a wonderful Christmas celebration and my prayer for you is that the peace and joy of this season may fill the New calendar year 2008.
a Christmas of joy and peace, and a new year with days of hope and renewal
I hope the Christmas celebrations are bringing you much joy and blessings.
Let the Joy and Peace which comes from the Bethlehem events of this Holy Night fulfills your hearts. Happy Holidays!
What about blessing? In the Catholic Church it is there often--you bless yourself with holy water when you enter or leave the church, the priest blesses you at the end, and we bless each other at the passing of the peace. Goodness gracious, they bless everything: rings, rosaries, very large, "wall rosaries." In the Pentecostal church we bless, too: "God bless you, sister." But for some reason I notice the habit of blessing more in friends who are not from the United States. One even blessed me at the beginning of a more or less permanent separation. This reminds me of the blessing in Numbers: "The Lord bless you and keep you; The Lord make his face to shine upon you, and be gracious to you; The Lord lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace."
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