We agree.
Posted on 12/20/2006 6:38:00 AM PST by DollyCali
lovely pix Jack.. great poem.
At the winery, I went out on patio for my wine. The view is breathtaking.. large gentle drop to the Wolfe Creek (which ia a large river actually ..think it must be partially damned. There are prolly 20 acres of rolling land & then the vineyards.. great view. As I was sitting, I heard a "rumbling" in my bag .. I had bought some "extras' " at the winery..
The winery cat was in my bag.. I did take some pix.. might post if I download etc..Still a while to go until I leave for evening
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Thanks for the devotion.
Awwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!
Thanks, Anne of DC! Same to ya!
I can't miss a day..
Hi Jack! Grey colored animals are so pretty!
Thank Ya Ony! Same to You & yours!
You sure don't miss a day and I'm glad that you don't.
Lots of people read it including me and you.
Thanks Dub.
Thanks.
Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Pretty purple edging on the manger gif!( 0n the Header.)
& of course the suject matter therin is most wonderful subject matter.
Very purrty indeed! Dita...is he yours or a www pic find?
The pic was sent to me in an e-mail.
Quite the charmer, eh?
I love you both very much. Thank you for bringing the gift of joy into my world each day.
1: It happened also that seven brothers and their mother were arrested and were being compelled by the king, under torture with whips and cords, to partake of unlawful swine's flesh....
20: The mother was especially admirable and worthy of honorable memory. Though she saw her seven sons perish within a single day, she bore it with good courage because of her hope in the Lord.
21: She encouraged each of them in the language of their fathers. Filled with a noble spirit, she fired her woman's reasoning with a man's courage, and said to them,
22: "I do not know how you came into being in my womb. It was not I who gave you life and breath, nor I who set in order the elements within each of you.
23: Therefore the Creator of the world, who shaped the beginning of man and devised the origin of all things, will in his mercy give life and breath back to you again, since you now forget yourselves for the sake of his laws."
24: Antiochus felt that he was being treated with contempt, and he was suspicious of her reproachful tone. The youngest brother being still alive, Antiochus not only appealed to him in words, but promised with oaths that he would make him rich and enviable if he would turn from the ways of his fathers, and that he would take him for his friend and entrust him with public affairs.
25: Since the young man would not listen to him at all, the king called the mother to him and urged her to advise the youth to save himself.
26: After much urging on his part, she undertook to persuade her son.
27: But, leaning close to him, she spoke in their native tongue as follows, deriding the cruel tyrant: "My son, have pity on me. I carried you nine months in my womb, and nursed you for three years, and have reared you and brought you up to this point in your life, and have taken care of you.
28: I beseech you, my child, to look at the heaven and the earth and see everything that is in them, and recognize that God did not make them out of things that existed. Thus also mankind comes into being.
29: Do not fear this butcher, but prove worthy of your brothers. Accept death, so that in God's mercy I may get you back again with your brothers."
30: While she was still speaking, the young man said, "What are you waiting for? I will not obey the king's command, but I obey the command of the law that was given to our fathers through Moses.
31: But you, who have contrived all sorts of evil against the Hebrews, will certainly not escape the hands of God.
32: For we are suffering because of our own sins.
33: And if our living Lord is angry for a little while, to rebuke and discipline us, he will again be reconciled with his own servants.
34: But you, unholy wretch, you most defiled of all men, do not be elated in vain and puffed up by uncertain hopes, when you raise your hand against the children of heaven.
35: You have not yet escaped the judgment of the almighty, all-seeing God.
36: For our brothers after enduring a brief suffering have drunk of everflowing life under God's covenant; but you, by the judgment of God, will receive just punishment for your arrogance.
37: I, like my brothers, give up body and life for the laws of our fathers, appealing to God to show mercy soon to our nation and by afflictions and plagues to make you confess that he alone is God,
38: and through me and my brothers to bring to an end the wrath of the Almighty which has justly fallen on our whole nation."
39: The king fell into a rage, and handled him worse than the others, being exasperated at his scorn.
40: So he died in his integrity, putting his whole trust in the Lord.
41: Last of all, the mother died, after her sons.
December 21, 2006
READ: 2 Corinthians 4:3-6
God . . . commanded light to shine out of darkness. —2 Corinthians 4:6
During the Christmas season of 1879, an agnostic reporter in Boston saw three little girls standing in front of a store window full of toys. One of them was blind. He heard the other two describing the toys to their friend. He had never considered how difficult it was to explain to someone without sight what something looks like. That incident became the basis for a newspaper story.
Two weeks later the reporter attended a meeting held by Dwight L. Moody. His purpose was to catch the evangelist in an inconsistency. He was surprised when Moody used his account of the children to illustrate a truth. “Just as the blind girl couldn’t visualize the toys,” said Moody, “so an unsaved person can’t see Christ in all His glory.”
On that first Christmas, only a few people understood who Jesus really was. Many heard the report of the shepherds and were amazed, but they didn’t view the baby in the manger as the Son of God.
Today, multitudes are unaware of the true identity of Jesus because they are spiritually blind. If this describes you, ask God to open your eyes. Believe that the Lord of glory died for your sins. Then trust Him. Your eyes will be opened, and you’ll recognize who He really is.
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