Advent Series: Shortbread Cookies
Recipe for Love
Matthew 1:18-25
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Shortbread cookies
2 sticks softened salted butter
½ cup sugar
2 cups flour
1 tsp vanilla extract
Cream butter and sugar for about two minutes or until it looks like fluffy sand. Add vanilla and flour. Mix on lower speed just until it comes together. Press dough evenly into a parchment-lined or greased 9-in springform pan. Bake on 325 for 25-30 minutes until it browns slightly on the edges. Cool for five minutes, release the sides, and cut while warm. Then cool sliced cookies completely before removing from the pan.
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Devotional:
“Now the birth of Jesus the Messiah took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been engaged to Joseph, but before they lived together, she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. Her husband Joseph, being a righteous man and unwilling to expose her to public disgrace, planned to dismiss her quietly. But just when he had resolved to do this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife, for the child conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will bear a son, and you are to name him Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.” All this took place to fulfill what had been spoken by the Lord through the prophet: “Look, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall name him Emmanuel,” which means, “God is with us.” When Joseph awoke from sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord commanded him; he took her as his wife, but had no marital relations with her until she had borne a son; and he named him Jesus.”
Matthew 1:18-25 NRSV
Love is showing up for someone else, taking on the human form of God’s love—a kind of incarnation , being God’s love in the flesh. Joseph decided to show up for Mary. Not because he felt like it, but because God asked him to. Where is God leading you to show up and show love for someone this week?
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