Christmas Eve Sermon, Luke 2:19: Mary Pondered

This is the hour, the place, and the time for pondering.  What a wonderful word: “ponder.”  It means something like “meditate.”  But meditate sounds a bit too active.  “Ponder” comes from the Latin word pondus, meaning “to consider, to weigh, to hold in balance.”  “Mary continued to treasure all these things in her heart and […]