Songs in Waiting
Spiritual Reflections on Christ's Birth: A Celebration of Middle Eastern Canticles

Understanding the Incarnation
A simple story about an illuminating Christmas Eve in the Midwest that can help us understand the love God shows us through Christ's life on earth

The True Love of Christmas
Open one of these gifts each day of the Christmas Season and discover a practice that celebrates God's love and the joy of Jesus' birth.

Christmas Beginnings
Christmas is not just a day or even a season of the year—an event on the calendar that arrives and passes. No, Christmas is much more than that. It is a permanent change that enters into our world for keeps.

Being like Jesus
Christmas reminds us that God became a human being just like us, with eyes and ears, with a mouth and hands, with a heart and feet. Share these prayers from children in celebration of God's presence with us and love for all people.

Finding God in the Eyes of a Child
Underneath all of the busyness, the rushing, the effervescence of the holidays, there is the mystery of infinite love, waiting to take flesh yet again, to surprise us, to remind us of the hope and the promise that comes in the stable in Bethlehem, in the stable of our own hearts, in the stillness of the winter night.

The Christmas Story
"God loves us so much that in order to communicate with us, God has spoken in our language, the language we can understand, the language of being human."

Waiting for the Epiphany
"I don’t really know how to engage Jesus, the infant, or even Jesus, the toddler. And aside from the theological and incarnational implications involved, I can’t even get excited about His ever having been such. I just want to rush through all that stuff and get to the Man…"

BETHLEHEM, A BIRTH AND A BABY
When we do this—when we go back and take a closer look at this strange story of Christmas Eve, we notice some very striking things—things that all of us might just find worth singing about.

WHERE IS THE CHILD?
Where is the child? You may have asked yourself this question, wondering what has happened to the promises of peace, justice, mercy, and love that were supposed to surround the arrival of the Messiah. Things don't seem to have changed very much, so, Where is the child?

PIPER CITY CHRISTMAS
When Fred Borsch visited his grandparents' home during the holidays, a body in the parlor was a regular part of the domestic scene.

YOU, TOO, CAN BE A STAR
If you choose to be a star this Christmas, spend time reading, reflecting and praying—then re-reading, reflecting and praying again—through the Gospels, so you learn what it is to follow Jesus.

PRAYERS FOR LIVING: CHRISTMAS PRAYERS
Special holiday prayers for comfort, peace, celebrating with joy, and for those who are alone

GUIDED PRAYER IN TEXT AND AUDIO
Celebrate Christmas in prayer.