It's a full ten days after Christmas; most of our world has moved on through New Year's celebrations and final cleaning up and putting away, but here we are in church, still keeping this Sunday as part of our Christmas observance. The Godly Play children's curriculum teaches that Christmas is so great a mystery that we need more than one day to fully enter into it -- we need a full season to live into the deep mystery of Christ's coming. Today's readings invite us to enter the mystery.
Jeremiah 31:7-14