I received another really great “LDS Gem” in my email today. It is perfect for this Christmas season. I will post it here for you but first I want to share with you this picture I scanned out of the December ENSIGN. It’s an LDS Church magazine I get every month. This painting was in it this month of Mary holding her newly arrived Baby Jesus. I was so overcome with emotion the first time I laid eyes on it. There are so many depictions of Christ in this world but very few of the precious baby Jesus. Being a mother myself might be why this tugs at my heartstrings so dramatically but I just can’t get over that precious little face. Anyway….here is the Gem that goes perfectly with this picture:
“At the focal point of all human history, a point illuminated by a new star in the heavens revealed for just such a purpose, probably no other mortal watched–none but a poor young carpenter, a beautiful virgin mother, and silent stabled animals who had not the power to utter the sacredness they had seen. Shepherds would soon arrive and later, wise men from the East. Later yet the memory of that night would bring Santa Claus and Frosty and Rudolph–and all would be welcome. But first and forever there was just a little family, without toys or trees or tinsel. With a baby–that’s how Christmas began.
“It is for this baby that we shout in chorus: ‘Hark! the herald angels sing Glory to the newborn King! . . . Mild he lays his glory by, Born that man no more may die; Born to raise the sons of earth, Born to give them second birth’ ( Hymns, no. 209).” Jeffrey R. Holland
December 21st, 2005
December 21st, 2005 at 9:48 pm
Erica Says:
I love this. Its all about the baby!
December 22nd, 2005 at 5:16 am
Lisa Ubnoske Says:
I love pics of baby Jesus! I have two hanging in my home. My best memory is 3 years ago when I had a two week old baby on Christmas day!! Lovely time!!!
(I had the baby two weeks earlier–not gave birth on Christmas to a 2 week old baby!! LOL)
December 26th, 2005 at 12:09 am
Jessica Sprague Says:
Thank you for writing this! I heard this quote in church today, and went looking for it online. Thank you for putting it on your site. Wonderful picture choice too! Merry Christmas!