Wishing you have a wonderful Christmas Day with plenty of friends, family, and especially Jesus Christ in your midst when you gather to worship Him on the celebration of His nativity.

I prefer the classics in art and when I saw Sandro Botticelli’s “The Mystical Nativity” I wanted to share it with everyone who stops by. If you are wondering what the text reads above the clouds in this painting:

I see
The heavens laugh with you in your jubilee:
My heart is at your festival,
My head has its coronal
The fullness of your bliss, I
Feel - I feel it all.

If you also notice the season in which this nativity scene takes place. For much of history the evidence was disregarded about the times and descriptions of the Birth of Christ in the Bible, but the Bible makes clear that Jesus was NOT born in cold December. Botticelli’s attention to those details makes this piece of art stand out from the crowd.