I know this is an ad for google and youtube but to me more importantly shows a mosaic of humans searching. We will always be searching. Reaching for awesomeness, inspiration, creation. We were created in the likeness of our creator. Searching for Faith, finding that creator in your soul is the most essential part of our human existence. When we open that conversation with our creator our whole existence becomes truly alive.
Follow God’s commandments to honor father and mother.
Show Christian love for our spouses and honor and obey each other.
Try not to discourage ourchildren
Live the call as a Christian parent providing children physical, emotional and spiritual needs
Help them grow in faith and love for God.
Teaching our children how to act as parents.
Family is love in action. When we show our children the love we have for them and for God, we teach them how to love others.
Family is God’s gift to us. Our gift in return is to strive to follow the footsteps of Joseph and Mary as we parent our children each day.
The Coventry Carol
This beautiful English lullaby carol originated in the Coventry Corpus Christi Mystery Plays performed in the 15th century. In a play called The Pageant of the Shearmen and Tailors, the women of Bethlehem sing this song just before Herod’s soldiers come to slaughter their children. It tells the story of the murder of the Holy Innocents, and is sung on December 28, the feast of those tiny martyrs.
Lully, Lullay, thou little tiny child.
Bye, bye, lully, lullay.
Lullay thou little tiny child
Bye, bye, lully, lullay
O sisters, too, how may we do,
For to preserve this day;
This poor Youngling for whom we sing
Bye, bye lully, lullay
Herod the King, in his raging,
Charged he hath this day;
His men of might, in his own sight,
All young children to slay.
Then woe is me, poor child, for thee,
And ever mourn and say;
For thy parting neither say nor sing,
Bye, bye lully, lullay.
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. – John 1:14
“Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life!” – Albert Einstein
I love this quote. It reminds me to count every blessing.