Why do reindeer swim?

It’s official! Santa is in the air. My granddaughter and I watched him take off this morning on television.

“Nana,” she asked, “Why do reindeer swim?”

Hmmmmm.

“Do you mean fly?” I asked.

She nodded.

“So they can get where they are going faster,” I answered. Thank goodness cops don’t give speeding tickets to Santa or he would be in trouble.

I hope you are able to spend Christmas with your loved ones and I hope your hearts are filled with joy and love.  Please keep those who have lost loved ones and our service men and women in your prayers. May you have a blessed Christmas!

The Shepherds and Angels

⁸That night some shepherds were in the fields outside the village, guarding their flocks of sheep. ⁹Suddenly, an angel of the Lord appeared among them, and the radiance of the Lord’s glory surrounded them. They were terribly frightened, ¹⁰but the angel reassured them. “Don’t be afraid!” he said. “I bring you good news of great joy for everyone! ¹¹The Savior—yes, the Messiah, the Lord—has been born tonight in Bethlehem, the city of David! ¹²And this is how you will recognize him: You will find a baby lying in a manger, wrapped snugly in strips of cloth!”

¹³Suddenly, the angel was joined by a vast host of others—the armies of heaven—praising God:

¹⁴ “Glory to God in the highest heaven,
and peace on earth to all whom God favors. ^F6 ”

¹⁵When the angels had returned to heaven, the shepherds said to each other, “Come on, let’s go to Bethlehem! Let’s see this wonderful thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about.”

¹⁶They ran to the village and found Mary and Joseph. And there was the baby, lying in the manger. ¹⁷Then the shepherds told everyone what had happened and what the angel had said to them about this child. ¹⁸All who heard the shepherds’ story were astonished, ¹⁹but Mary quietly treasured these things in her heart and thought about them often. ²⁰The shepherds went back to their fields and flocks, glorifying and praising God for what the angels had told them, and because they had seen the child, just as the angel had said.