Good Afternoon, Mayor.
Thank you for the coffee and the wisdom. It is so hectic everywhere you go. It is nice to see your post each morning and remember the reason for Christmas.
Do you have a most memorable Christmas story to share with us?
Read: 1 John 1:5-9
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. —1 John 1:9
Bible In One Year: 1 John 1-2
According to Greek mythology, King Augeus owned a stable with 3,000 oxen. Their stalls had not been cleaned out for 30 years—hence our English word Augean, which refers to something exceedingly filthy from long neglect. Hercules, the mythical strong man, was commanded to clean the Augean stable in a single day.
When Hercules first saw the stable, he was dismayed by its size, filthiness, and stench. Then he noticed that it was located between two great rivers, the Alpheus and the Peneus. He put his great strength to work and diverted the rivers so they flowed through the building. Within a short time the stable was rinsed clean.
The story is a myth, of course, but myths by their very nature preserve the yearnings of the cultures that embrace and perpetuate them. The story reflects, I believe, our own longing for someone to wash from our lives the accumulated waste and filth of the years.
There is a powerful river of forgiveness that flows from the cross of Christ. No defilement, even though Augean, can withstand its cleansing flow. When we humbly confess our sins, all of our unrighteousness is washed away (1 John 1:9). We can be sure that our "sins, which are many, are forgiven" (Luke 7:47). —David Roper
Hope everyone has a SUPER GREAT Christmas and New Year!
Happy Hanukkah to all the Jewish Freepers!
This will my last day to post on FR until 2004 as I am going to be off from work from 12/24/03 until 01/02/04.
YIPPIE!
Tomorrow I’m gonna see “The Return of the King” and then I’m going over to my parents’ house for Christmas Eve dinner and to open presents (a family tradition ever since I was a kid)
I need to make some wishes for all my Friends on FreeRepublic for this Christmas and for the coming year.
I wish everyone the happiest of Christmases and may God bless you all!
I wish 2004 will be a year a triumph and prosperity for each and every one of you. May this election year be a successful one for President Bush and for all good people running for office.
May all good Americans be celebrating victory on Nov. 2 this year.
May the terrorists be made small while true patriots become tall!
May God continue to bless President and Mrs. Bush; the Troops; All our elected officials; and all that post and lurk on Free Republic; and may God continue to bless America!