Seasons Greetings from Anita!🎄 After a hectic day in the impatient big city, wrestling cars all going too fast, the familiar trip home gets easier but darker the closer I get. Off the highway, the patched blacktop curves with surrounding pastures and clumps of sleeping cattle.
And Merry Christmas to you and yours, Anita. Thanks for reminding us of the reason for the season. In these dire times it never hurts to remember this is all part of God's plan. Remain faithful and all will be well. I've read the book. I know how it ends. We're going to be fine.
The most important event--or, actually, part of it--in history, was the birth of Jesus Christ. While its details and any theology concerning it may be debated, the fact that he lived forms the first part of the great event. The second part is that he died. Here we have numerous contemporary eye-witnesses who affirm the event more definitively than would be required in an honest court of law. The third part of the great event is that he rose from the dead. Again, contemporary eye-witnesses corroborate the fact, and no cold-case investigation has ever stood against it; many who had not expected it, and even disbelieved that it had happened, changed their minds and were convinced to the point that they refused to deny it through their torture and deaths over many years. Believe it, and live accordingly; or don't. But during the great event Jesus himself declared himself to be God incarnate as well as that active belief in him is of extreme importance, so ho-humming the great event is not an option either. Thanks for reminding us, Anita.
Amen! All glory be to the Lord Jesus! Praise the Lord! I love what you conveyed here. So true. The Lord has come to the lowly, and downcast. I understand that the shepherds who were tending their sheep, were considered filthy and low in cast. The Lord’s love is given to all. ❤️🙌 Merry Christmas to all!
Thank you for once again painting such a vivid picture for us. And, for reminding us that the Creator of all things can use each and every one of us to share the Good News.
And Merry Christmas to you and yours, Anita. Thanks for reminding us of the reason for the season. In these dire times it never hurts to remember this is all part of God's plan. Remain faithful and all will be well. I've read the book. I know how it ends. We're going to be fine.
Wonderfully written — Christmas blessings all round, Anita!
Merry Christmas! Yep, we do know how it ends! Come Lord Jesus!
Amen! Thank you God for sending your Son to save us all!
Merry Christmas!
The most important event--or, actually, part of it--in history, was the birth of Jesus Christ. While its details and any theology concerning it may be debated, the fact that he lived forms the first part of the great event. The second part is that he died. Here we have numerous contemporary eye-witnesses who affirm the event more definitively than would be required in an honest court of law. The third part of the great event is that he rose from the dead. Again, contemporary eye-witnesses corroborate the fact, and no cold-case investigation has ever stood against it; many who had not expected it, and even disbelieved that it had happened, changed their minds and were convinced to the point that they refused to deny it through their torture and deaths over many years. Believe it, and live accordingly; or don't. But during the great event Jesus himself declared himself to be God incarnate as well as that active belief in him is of extreme importance, so ho-humming the great event is not an option either. Thanks for reminding us, Anita.
Amen! All glory be to the Lord Jesus! Praise the Lord! I love what you conveyed here. So true. The Lord has come to the lowly, and downcast. I understand that the shepherds who were tending their sheep, were considered filthy and low in cast. The Lord’s love is given to all. ❤️🙌 Merry Christmas to all!
Thank you for once again painting such a vivid picture for us. And, for reminding us that the Creator of all things can use each and every one of us to share the Good News.
A Joyous Christmas 2023 and New Years 2024 Anita, you and your whole family!
Shalom Aleichem and Godspeede!
Merry Christmas to you too!