The first thing that struck me about these two cards was how beautiful they were, though they are very different paintings and arrived on different days. On the face of it the Nativity and a rural snow-scene are the least remarkable of pictures on a Christmas card but something about these is special.
On turning to the back of them it becomes all the more amazing yet also more explicable. These are both copies of paintings by mouth artists. The painstaking attention they exhibit derives from the challenge that the artist faces in delivering any painting and the relative care and pride in the work they do.
This is somewhere near the beauty of the painstaking gift of God at Christmas.
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