Merry Christmas!

For unto us a Child is born,

    for unto us

             a Son is given.

            Isaiah 9. 6

(written 800 years

   before the birth of Christ)

For God so loved the world,

that He gave His only Son,

that whoever believes in Him

should not perish

        but have eternal life.

For God did not send His Son

into the world to condemn the world,

but in order that

   the world might be saved

                        through Him.

                    John 3. 16-17

(God's gift of grace

and love

and forgiveness

and salvation

    to the world.

Jesus Christ has come.

A weary world rejoices.)