Today is Tuesday, December 16th, 2008; Karen's Korner #1467

(Another 30 Holiday for Heroes cards will be sent today from Girl Scouts in our area!)
 
Some Christmas thoughts from Shirley Choat:
 
"Why did God choose to have the message of Jesus' birth come first to the shepherds of all people? Why not the mayor of Bethlehem, the town council, the village rabbi, or maybe a prominent businessman? Why shepherds?
 
"Was it because the others were too busy or preoccupied to listen? Was it because others had turned their backs and purposely ignored the gift that God was giving? Was the stable setting too humble for the more refined folks to visit? Or was it just to let us know that everyone is welcome?
 
"In lighting the Shepherds' Candle on the Advent wreath, we can see that the candle glows brightly enough to assure us there is none too poor, too lowly, too dirty, too humble, too despised to be excluded from God's cicles of light."
 
"Your little ones, dear LORD, are we
And come Your lowly bed to see;
Enlighten every soul and mind,
That we the way to You may find."
 
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY - "God's unsearchable ways deserve our unbounded praise."
 
 
 
 

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