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Category: Holidays / Topics: Christmas • Faith • Holidays • Holiday Season • Jesus • Metaphors, Life Lessons
The Christmas Plaid
Posted: December 31, 2022
Finding the true meaning of Christmas in a holiday decoration…
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A Christmas tartan green and red,
much like a tapestry of thread,
portrays the grace for which Christ bled
to give us life eternal.
For woven in that joyful plaid
are cruel stripes our Savior had
inflicted by a mob most mad
who caused his crucifixion.
The Savior born amid the hay
would die to take our sins away.
What we unwrap this Christmas Day
is only the beginning.
Here’s to the rest of the story…
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Greg Asimakoupoulos (pronounced AWESOME-uh-COPE-uh-less) is an ordained minister, published author and chaplain to a retirement community in the Pacfic Northwest. Greg maintains a blog called Rhymes and Reasons, which he graciously provides to SeniorLifestyle.Greg's writings have now been assembled in book form. See the SeniorLifestyle Store. • E-mail the author (moc.loa@veRemosewA*) • Author's website (personal or primary**)
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Posted: December 31, 2022
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