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Merry Christmas Everyone.
If you want to be added to our occasional ping list, let us know.
Merry Christmas, Snippy.
Merry Christmas FOXHOLE!!
Blessings to all this Season of Celebration. A pic of the Pigeon Pad Testers with some of Mrs alfa6s Christmas handiwork :-)
Bleesed Regards to All
alfa6 ;>}
Merry Christmas from EGC of Southwest Oklahoma.
Thanks for letting me join in with you guys. This is a great day.
I wish you & yours a very, Merry Christmas and a happy New Year from Texas.
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."
A very Merry Christmas to everyone at the Foxhole!
All I want for Christmas is my Flag ping list. Really, I don't have it with me, so if I missed you, my apologies.
Merry Christmas ma'am
| December 25, 2005
First Breath
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Russell Nagy's moving choral anthem "The Promise" contains these words:
Silently by night,
in mortal flesh enshrouded,
He who framed the mountains
draws first breath.
Far from human sight,
the Promise ne'er forgotten
Is in love begotten
to conquer death.
© 1993 by High Street Music
The marvel of Christmas is that the Maker of the mountains took His first breath as a baby. The One who framed the universe assumed human flesh so He could save us. The incarnation is the astounding combination of who descended from heaven to earth, how He arrived, and why He came. "For by Him all things were created . . . . And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. . . . For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell, and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, . . . having made peace through the blood of His cross" (Colossians 1:16-20).
When Jesus took His first breath on earth, a loving promise of God the Father was fulfilled. The Christ-child whom the angels announced and the shepherds proclaimed had come to die.
The baby in the manger was "the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation" (v.15), "in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins" (v.14).
O come, let us adore Him! —David McCasland
From my family to yours . . .
From my pets to your pets . . .
May we all have a blessed Christmas and see our beloved troops return home safely.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year everybody.
Merry Christmas to the Foxhole!!!