Be sure to check out the insightful little lesson on one aspect of Christmas’s importance here, at the Desiring God blog. Jesus not only was human, but he still is, a fact which ought remind us to the greatness of the miracle of what God has done for us and of what God continues to do for us.

He (God) became “fully human”, and not only was, but still is, which is so important. But, you’ll have to hit up the link above to read why. I don’t want to just reproduce the whole article here.

Oh, and the pic is, of course, not really supposed to be baby Jesus – it’s my new little baby girl. I thought you might want a reminder of what a beautiful little human baby looks like. Just replace the blue background with the inside of a manger and you should be good.

There are only a couple of days left in Advent. Check it out:

Covering two things I love: Christmas and Narnia, Laura Miller writes an interesting op-ed, published in the New York Times this week, called “It’s a Narnia Christmas.” Calling Christmas essentially a “Victorian fabrication,” she links the much-beloved Narnia books, by C.S. Lewis, to Christmas. The connection is not a difficult one to make, given Father Christmas’s appearance (among other things) in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, the first-published of the Chronicles of Narnia books.

I appreciate the way she appreciates Narnia and find it interesting to consider Christmas as a conglomeration of various traditions from over the years. Given C.S. Lewis’s appreciation for the ways in which the literature he studied did similiar things, that does make some sense, and seems apparent given the various literary and mythical traditions he pulls into his Narnia novels.

Of course, as a Christian, I necessarily see Christmas as primarily a time to remember how God came to the earth like even the least of us, to show us how much he loves us. When I read the Chronicles of Narnia, I similarly cannot help but find the often beautiful ideas of a creator who would give his life for even the worst of us children. I look forward to giving my children Narnia one day, soon!

Given that it actually was snowing in the Baton Rouge area this morning (our first “heavy” snow since 1988!), I’ve added some snow flakes to my site (courtesy of the “Snow and More” WordPress plugin). Let me know if it annoys you .