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A Sword Will Pierce Your Heart (The dark side of Christmas.)

12/22/2005 11:46:42 AM PST · by Mrs. Don-o · 46 replies · 861+ views
National Review Online ^ | December 22, 2005 | Amy Welborn

About a year ago, my husband and I traveled across the chilly cornfields of Indiana to have our younger son baptized...Babies, love, and family. Comfort, joy, and peace... But perhaps not so fast... What [we]forget, neglect or conveniently ignore is what we can not-too-dramatically call the Dark Side of Christmas. The really traditional Christian remembrance of the Nativity is not about sweetness. It is about awe, fear, and trembling, and it is shot through with hints of suffering to come. Mary, with a scandalous pregnancy. Joseph, courageous enough to take her on despite it. A birth among farm animals. The...

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