Merry Christmas!

It is 8:15 and the kids are not up yet, although Sarah just let me know that Calvin started singing Merry Christmas, i.e. I am crying for you to come and get me! So they will be up shortly.

We just wanted to wish you all a Merry Christmas and I thought Martin Luther, on the purpose of Christmas, would be quoteworthy for today:

St. Paul teaches, that Christ was born, to the end he might restore and bring everything to the state in which it was created at the beginning of the world; that is, to bring us to the knowledge of ourselves and our Creator, that we might learn to know who and what we have been, and who and what we now are; namely, that we were created after God's likeness, and afterwads, according to the likeness of man; that we were the devil's vizard through sin, utterly lost and destroyed; and that now we may be delivered from sin again and become pure, justified, and saved.