We at PeaceHorse celebrate the birth of Christ because he directs us to make peace not war. He tells us that the great commandment is to love God above all else and to love our neighbor as ourselves.
What God wishes for us and asks us to do turns out to be good for us. So why don’t we do what God asks us to do? Isn’t our Father a loving father?
Joseph and Mary straggling into Bethlehem looking for a place for Mary to lay her head and rest. Jesus comes that night born in a manger with animals for witnesses and shepherds and angels outside the barn door.
Artist: Edna Marie Schmidt, The Christmas Travelers, oil on canvass, 20″ x 24″, 1995