meeting saint nicholas and seeing Jesus
Today I spent some time learning about Saint Nicholas. My interest came about from a Sojourners newsletter that I was reading this week. It is fascinating to find out how this saint evolved into the jolly coca-cola santa we know today. I found a website that you should definitely check out if you are at all interested in learning another way to re-claim the Christian part of this over-commercialised season.
Saints are a fascinating way to learn about what it means to be a person of faith, they are amazing examples of how to love God with your whole life. Saint Nicholas gave of all that he had to help the poor and less fortunate people around him. He protected people, and prayed fervently for people, people he hardly knew. That's the kind of thing we should be celebrating this season. Jesus shows us the way we should live our lives, Saint Nicholas did a good job of that, can we strive to live up to that example as well?
posted by Shannon @ 9:30 PM
1 Comments:
I guess Tripod doesn't like me accessing the Saint Nick image from my account there.
It's a nice picture.
There are tons of great St. Nicholas pictures at the website I put the link to in my post, so go take a look and imagine a pretty pic on my post :)
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