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| His Excellency of Jordan | Jerry Mathers |
Separated at birth
Posted on 12/24/2004 12:18:11 AM PST by JohnHuang2
I though he was Turkish...
Santa Claus is Polish because he wears red and white!
Looks like my cousin Irwin.
In any case... I'm off to do Christmas Eve stuff...
Merry Christmas!
Wherever you are, Merry Christmas!
And cy, all the best to you, sweetie!
Thanks Pharm! Unfortunatly, I couldn't make it to Boca (where my parents now live) or New York this year for various reasons. I'm all alone, but still enjoying a soggy Christmas.
1 Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
2 He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
3 He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
4 Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted.
5 But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed.
6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth.
8 By oppression and judgment he was taken away. And who can speak of his descendants? For he was cut off from the land of the living; for the transgression of my people he was stricken.
9 He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, though he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.
10 Yet it was the LORD's will to crush him and cause him to suffer, and though the LORD makes his life a guilt offering, he will see his offspring and prolong his days, and the will of the LORD will prosper in his hand.
11 After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light of life and be satisfied; by his knowledge my righteous servant will justify many, and he will bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore I will give him a portion among the great, and he will divide the spoils with the strong, because he poured out his life unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors. For he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
Thank you, Lord, for agreeing to be born, to suffer and die for our sin, and to rise again on the third day.
You are Beautiful!
Merry Christmas all.
Well, no white Christmas for us, but I told my neighbors we would have no snow this year since I finally sprung for a 750 dollar Craftsman snow thrower. So, they can all blame me for a non-white Christmas...
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Stay dry...and you can always attend a Kurt Cobain festival if you get bored...
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| His Excellency of Jordan | Jerry Mathers |
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He looks like Dennis Farina?
I thought he looked like a young Sean Penn.
Glad we could clear that up.
Excellent post.
Merry Christmas.
I bought a slurpy from this exact guy the other week at a 7-11.
The one on the right does not look like Jesus. He looks like a madman.
Obviously this picture is an attempt at demeaning and belittling Jesus.
Merry Christmas.
My mother was a child of the depression, living in very hard circumstances, very difficult; a banana, an orange and maybe a stick of peppermint in her Christmas stocking was a good Christmas for her. - Then the kids would all come to school the next day at the little one room schoolhouse in the mountains. Some of them were poor like her, but there were those who brought big, pretty dolls and toys, wore new clothes in a sort of "show and tell what Santa brought ME".
She believed in Santa Claus; but she wondered if Santa Claus loved little children so much WHY WAS HE SO PARTIAL? She would have been better off knowing Santa Claus was her hard working parents who had to struggle to give her a pocket handkerchief or the little treats she and her six surviving brothers and sisters received for Christmas. She lived several years as a child feeling like she was not as good as other children, not as loved by Santa Claus as other children, maybe not as loved by God.
She and I had a good laugh about it, but that was a lot of years later and a lot of pain in a child's heart. Normally, I would say children have to face the reality of other kids having more of this or a better that than their parents might be able to afford; but based on a lie that causes the child even more pain and feelings of inferiority than is necessary, I don't know.
Having said this, we played Santa Claus with our son for several years when he was little. I doubt I would now. The reality of Christmas can be blessed just with the truth.
We have been to the little Wyatt museum (and it IS very small but has quite a bit in it). Ron Wyatt is deceased now, but he claimed to have found the Ark of the Covenant and that it was hidden in a cave right below where the cross was set; that the purpose of the earthquake was to split the earth so Christ's blood would seep through the earth and onto the literal mercy seat. I don't know one way or the other, but it's an interesting story.
I think you have something there.
It's the Beeb!
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