Posted on 12/03/2001 1:46:05 AM PST by Mudboy Slim
"Here Was A Man"
(To be spoken--Johnny Cash-like--over a lonely keyboard version of "Joy to the World")
"Here was a man...a man who was born in a small village, the son of a peasant woman. He grew up in another small village. Until He reached the age of thirty, He worked as a carpenter; then, for three years, He was a travelling minister. But He never travelled more than two hundred miles from where He was born, and where He did go, He usually walked. He never held political office, He never wrote a book, He never bought a home, He never had a family, He never went to college, and He never set foot inside a big city, yet...here was a man.
Here was a man...though He never did one of those things that you usually associate with greatness, He had no credentials but Himself. He had nothing to do with this World, except through the Divine Purpose that brought Him to this World.
While He was still a young man, the Tide of Popular Opinion turned against Him. Most of His FRiends ran away...one of them denied Him, one of them betrayed Him and turned Him over to his Enemies. Then, He went through the mockery of a Trial and was nailed to a Roman Cross between two thieves. And even while He was dying, His executioners gambled for the only piece of property He had in this World, and that was His robe, His Purple Robe. When He was dead, He was taken down from the cross and laid in a borrowed grave, provided by a compassionate FRiend.
More than Nineteen Centuries have come and gone, and today He's the Centerpiece of the Human Race, Our Leader, and the Column to Human Destiny. And I think I'm well within the mark when I say that All of the Armies that Ever Marched, All of the Navies that Ever Sailed, All of the Legislative Bodies that Ever Sat, and All of the Kings that Ever Reigned...All of Them Put Together have not affected the Life of Man on this Earth so Powerfully as that One Solitary Life...
Here was a man."
I am honored, my Newbie Neighbor FRiend...you come highly-recommended.
"Uh oh, the ego alert went off. What did I say? "
It ain't braggin' if you can do it...but even when ya do, be like Barry Sanders and act like ya been there before!!
"Anyway, there's a lot of reading to do on this thread, then I'll fire up the lyric making module and help out."
As you can tell, we need all the help we can get...We've Gotta TYRANT to DETHRONE, RE-IMPEACH, INDICT, CONVICT, and IMPRISON!!
"Let's see, Trochee, iambic pentameter, I'd better look these up first."
Hunh?!
LOL and Welcome...MUD
( I don't know about that tree story, Slim.... I think I've heard that before....)
FReegards...MUD
CDB Rocks...MUD
Reckon you have...my Aunt Carol sent it to me from Topeka!!
FReegards...MUD
Or, my liberal FRiend, until the Cost of his Illegitimacy Exceeds the Value of his Markers.
FReegards...MUD
Have Fun, Y'all...but remember MurryMom's got feelings, too, and--to paraphrase Ann Richards--"She kan't he'p it!! She's a Lib'ral!!"
BWAHAHAHAHA...MUD
A LIB Amongst us...Now is this fun or what?
FreeMerryXmasGards From The Most Socialist Republic Of NY,
Karen
6'-5", 250-pounds...87 inch wingspan. Keep an eye on this fella...he's gonna be a star!!
Wahoo...MUD
BTW...heard his nickname back home in New York is "Dwight!!" But I also hear he's a good kid, so we'll have to keep lookin'...LOL!!
Thanks fer puttin' in the good word, my FRiend...MUD
I know Freeport High School well, MUD, lived in Roosevelt (town next door)for 10 years, and it's all a slum now!
FReegards...MUD
If Osama bil Clinton is Jeff Spicolli...will Randy be his Mr. "Dwight" Hand?!
LOL...MUD
BTW..."Rumor has it that commitments from other visitors from this weekend and last weekend could happen within the next day or so. Stay tuned."
WahooWah!!! UVA Football shall be ranked #1 by 2004...SITYS!!!
All true MUD...yes, things have changed from the Good Ol'Days!
As it has not happened ... ask youself ... why not ... did I miss something ... did I assume something ... what, what, what is it ...?
Because they succeeded in recruiting some sow who likes to eat?
You'd better hope this jamoke can get a 2.0GPA in Leisure-Time Studies, son!!
Are you in for a rude awakening.
...jeepers; might as well recruited me or you for the eating part; well you, anyway.
!!:o)!!
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