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There are times when doubt intrudes on faith.

How could He find humans, endlessly lying to themselves and others, as predictable and obnoxious as cockroaches and with habits more filthy than house flies, as obsessed with dominance as pigs and like pigs only interested becoming fat and powerful, how could He love us? How could it be that He would love us as we love our children? How could He, transfinite, infinite, transinfinite, so much more than that, how could He find us worth dying for? Why would he chose to become man and die to show that He is with us? Humans so vile? Humans so ungrateful, so venal and so stupid as to not even love Him?

I am such a creature that too often I find this "God loves us" stuff just too impossible. The world darkens. This whole god business is just a myth. A myth, like the story of Eurydice and Orpheus, a tribal ceremony, nothing really different from Aztec slaughter of men like pigs until the pyramids and public places were flowing with blood. Except maybe our myth is not as bloody? Sometimes, anyway?

The myth of the "noble savage" was born because honesty and courage is overrun by vulgarity and evil but humans must have been different sometime, right? Even this seemingly innocent hope led us to Liberalism, Socialism, and to Communism. Wretches, miserable, dirty, lying wretches.

Flopping helplessly in despair like a fish out of water and like that fish close to death, dying, and soon dead my struggle is unavailing, hopeless. Then suddenly He is here, here for me, shining his light, dispelling the darkness and the endless whispering of the Lord of the Flies.

Christ is born. The Lord is with us. With His Grace He has come to save us from Satan's power, from the glamor of evil.

My soul magnifies the Lord,
And my spirit rejoices in God my Savior.
For He who is mighty has done great things for me, and holy is His name. And His mercy is on those who fear Him from generation to generation.
He has shown strength with His arm:
He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
He has put down the mighty from their thrones,
and exalted those of low degree.
He has filled the hungry with good things;
and the rich He has sent empty away.
He has helped His servant Israel, in remembrance of His mercy;
As He spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and to His posterity forever.

Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.

As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end.

Amen.

Merry Christmas, everybody. "God bless us, every one."

Amen!

God Bless Our Troops!

The Christmas Manger Scene..........God Has A SON!

1st Timothy 3:6....Micah 5:2......1st Cornthians 15:1-4......Acts 16:31....John 3:16

'Narnia'= 1st Peter 5:8

MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY HANUKKAH to ALL of OUR TROOPS!

GOD BLESS AMERICA and our COMMANDER and CHIEF!

Iris, I know you and many others who would lay down there life for another and God is much more wonderful than us mere humans he made in his image. He loves us because he knows our hearts, regardless of the fact our deeds may not meet the standard he'd like for us.

((Hugs))