First Thursday of Advent
From Wilshire Advent Devotions 2009
Luke 2:1-4: In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) And everyone went to their own town to register. So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David.
There’s something magic about “coming home” for Christmas – the anticipation building with every mile until at last you burst in the door and find yourself in the warmth of family and friends. The first opportunity I had for such a trip, I decided to do it big.
During Christmas break from college I rode a Greyhound bus from Dallas to Tucumcari, New Mexico, to join my older brother on a long, winding drive home for the holidays. In the span of four days and a thousand miles we saw some sights, visited friends, bought some gifts and horsed around. We survived ice and snow, too little sleep, too much fun, and a blowout on my brother’s pick-up truck.
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