Merry Christmas to all of you! I just love this time of year, don't you? To me it's special because I know I'll be baking cookies with the kids and gathering with my family and friends over special, time honored recipes and traditions while celebrating the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ.
Which brings me to the reason I'm writing this post today, to discuss the Christmas Story, the beautiful story we find in the books of the Bible known as the Gospels, about how a virgin named Mary was to be blessed by God to carry God's own son, Jesus. We all know it by heart, I'm sure, but it's one of those stories that I love to hear unfold over and over, time after time. Each time I read it to my kids, or read it to myself,