Wonder Lost

Published: Dec. 24, 2007, 8:41 a.m.

b'This Christmas Clay wonders about the wonder of Christmas. Can we overcome our familiarity with the story and our memories of Christmas past to hear the story as if for the first time.\\n\\n"There is only one time a year that I miss the King James Bible. Somehow the Christmas story only sounds right in 16th century Elizabethan English (the way God said it). When I hear it I know where I am and what day it is.\\n\\n\\u201cAnd it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed.\\u201d" Full text at http://www.stmatthews.org.nz/nav.php?sid=327&id=799.'