a Sunday blessing

Snow globes are so magical -

especially with digital macro and some picnik additions...

This gift was presented to me Friday

by a Third grader

with a huge grin and an insistent "please open it now".

Gotta love that enthusiasm...

Just look at this magical world I unwrapped -

 a towering magical Bethlehem 

with poor Mary and Joseph 

 traveling in circles looking for a place for our savior to be born.

(don't you just feel like you are going in circles somedays?)

At least they get to be serenaded by "Oh Little Town of Bethlehem"

while they trudge through the snow as

...there was no room for them in the inn.

Luke 2:7

And this same young man named Zach 

then showed me this card he created in art.

Wow he is quite the artist which I already knew.

Just look at the graphic quality of the houses 

silhouetted against the night sky.

And Santa's sleigh just glides across the moon 

with Rudolph's nose illuminating the evening.

Well being one to promote all art in youth

I asked him if I could display it on my blog

and I told him I would send all your comments to him.

So I would love it if you would leave a word of encouragement 

for this fine young man.

Merry Christmas from Zach and me!