Grandpa’s Interlude
We’re about to embark on the “Christmas Story.” I’ll write about it this weekend. But first I thought I might invite a little sharing. I am wondering how this story has been used in your life.
My central memory of this story is from my Mom’s family. My mom is a PK (Preacher’s kid) and has four siblings. They are all loud, witty and sarcastic. Consequently Christmas is a wonderful occasion. It is loud and raucous. Filled with old memories and new ones. One of the few quiet memories, is the time when my Grandfather would insist that every one get quiet to hear the Christmas story. It often took longer to gather the family and get everyone quiet than it did to read, but either way, my Grandfather would insist.
I remember as a kid that I could tell this was important because it was the only time that my aunts would stop talking all at once. It became a tradition to complain about the reading, (especially if it was almost time to open presents) but eventually everyone would settle down. I don’t have many scriptures that are connected to events, but this text I think I will always hear in my Grandfather’s voice.
Anybody else have a Luke 2 story to share?
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on June 8th, 2007 at 5:52 pm
My strongest memory of Luke 2 was my minister Mr Miller asking me to read it for a Christmas-time service (maybe Christmas Eve) at my home church. I was pretty young, read from the KJV, and afterwards Mr Miller said something like “that boy would make a great preacher”
He’d already said similar things to my parents before, and would continue to influence me towards Christian maturity – including the event that became my “call” to FT Christian service. Eventually when I made my choice of Bible college, I would go to his alma mater. So I’ll always connect this text w/ David Miller and a very old wooden pulpit and black-bound KJV @ the Staten Island Chr Church.
on June 13th, 2007 at 3:14 pm
For me I came to know Christ as an adult. My intial reading of Luke 2 came from a great awaking of, “Wow! So this is where Jesus came from?,” while I was reading the Bible through for a year. Before this I relied on Lynus (sp?) from The Peanut’s to tell the tale of Christ’s birth.