I still remember the first time I walked down those slippery, worn-out limestone steps into the Grotto of the Nativity.…
Browsing: BIRTH, EARLY LIFE
Explore the years before his ministry. We cover Jesus BIRTH and EARLY LIFE, detailing the Nativity, the flight to Egypt, and his youth in Nazareth.
I was six years old, and my dad’s bathrobe smelled faintly of mothballs. That’s what I remember most. I was…
I was seven years old, standing on a plywood stage in a bathrobe that smelled like my dad’s closet. I…
I can still smell the stale coffee and pine needles from a Christmas Eve twenty years ago. I was sitting…
I still remember the smell of the old carpet in my childhood Sunday School classroom. It was that distinct mix…
I still remember the scratchy wool of my Sunday best and the smell of old hymnals. I was maybe eight…
I still remember the specific smell of the church basement where we held the annual Christmas pageant—a mix of floor…
I can still smell the mothballs on that bathrobe. I was seven years old, standing center stage in the sanctuary…
My dad had this ancient, chipped plaster nativity set that he bought at a garage sale before I was born.…
My hands were freezing. I was maybe ten years old, standing in the front yard holding a tangled ball of…
I still remember the exact moment the question stopped being academic for me. I wasn’t sitting in a comfortable library…