I took this picture a year ago and it still resonates deeply in me. I came across it as I was removing images from my phone and I thought wow... that is beautiful. It was around this time last year that I was helping to serve communion at the church that I was employed at and as I approached the front to pick up my tray I was awestruck as I looked at the communion plates next to the nativity. And I thought to myself then, what a beautiful image of our savior. In that moment I was celebrating the entirety of his life, his birth and his death. The beginning and the end of his life on earth were each overwhelmingly powerful. Let us not forget this season not only the birth of our savior but his ultimate sacrifice for us. Jesus my savior, you are so beautiful.
They gave him a manger for a cradle, a carpenter's bench for a pulpit, thorns for a crown, and a cross for a throne. He took them and made them the very glory of his career.
~W.E. Orchard
