Listen for God's voice during the Christmas season

“In the very midst of our busy preparations for the celebration of Christ’s birth in ancient Bethlehem, Christ is reborn in the Bethlehems of our homes and daily lives. Take time, slow down, be still, and be awake to the Divine Mystery that looks so common and so ordinary, yet is wondrously present.’

-Edward Hays

It seems that secular expectations of decorating, gift-giving, entertaining, and attendance has attempted to rob this 2009 season of Christmas of the sense of Peace and Shalom it intends. Shifting cultural expectations have no sense of intention or conscience… they are reactive and re...