Greetings from a snowy and quite cold Madison, WI! The temperature when I got up this morning was minus 4 F, which translates, for those of you in other parts of the world, to minus 20 C.

Don’t feel sorry for us, though! The world in deep winter has a beauty and a wonder all its own, and we love it (most of us do). I rejoice as I watch the sun shine on the snowbanks and tiny birds scrounging for seeds, and I remember that the God of springtime and summer is also the keeper of ‘storehouses of snow’ (Job 38:22).

The Word Became Flesh

And in this part of the world, the onset of winter is a reminder that the end of our calendar year is at hand, a new year approaches and, with it, that wonderful Advent season in which we celebrate the arrival and birth of Jesus, our Savior and Lord. As we at Care of Creation send you our wishes and prayers for a wonderful time of celebration, we trust you are joining with us in remembering Jesus’ birth and all that it means.