I Dropped Baby Jesus

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Wednesday, Dec 9 - Guide, Guard, Govern Still reflecting on peace, I happened to read this prayer from an old book of prayers, Prayers Ancient and Modern - Primary Source Edition (Mary Wilder Tileston). I am making this prayer mine today as a part of my Advent reflection: Grant unto us, Almighty God, Thy peace that passeth all understanding; that we, amid the storms and troubles of this our life, may rest in Thee, knowing that all things are in Thee, under Thy care, governed by Thy will, guarded by Thy love; so that with a quiet heart we may see the storms of life, the cloud and the thick darkness; ever rejoicing to know that the darkness and the light are both alike to Thee. Guide, guard, and govern us even to the end, that none of us may fail to lay old upon the immortal life - Amen -George Dawson- Guide, guard, govern...I like that! It made me think of this verse, regarding Christ's Advent: For unto us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:6 16
Thursday, Dec 10 - What DID Mary Know? The following link has been all over Facebook, so you may have clicked on it already, but if not, take a listen to this remix of one of my favorite Christmas songs - Mary Did You Know (Pentatonix). The song alone is worth pondering today as we reflect on Advent. However, as I listened, the question kept begging an answer in my mind - Exactly what did Mary know? Recently, Bay and I watched the old movie, Yentl, with Barbara Streisand. If you've not seen it, the story highlights a young Hebrew woman who longed to increase in knowledge, to have her questions answered, but she lived in an era when "it was a man's job to do the thinking and the learning, and a woman's job to marry, to cook, and to have babies." For a woman to read and study the Torah was illegal. Yet, bless his heart, Yentl's father taught her to read, to study, to discuss, and, even argue the Holy Writings...until he died, and Yentl was left with nothing. So, she cut her hair, dressed like a young boy, and set out to a new community, where she might enroll & live among the male population as a student, and satiate her greatest desire. Mary lived in such a society, perhaps a bit worse than Yentl's. Life for women in Mary's world was not easy, nor free. Women were no more than property owned by a man. As in Yentl's world, what Mary DID KNOW was that she wasn't allowed to think, to have a voice. What Mary DID KNOW would have been caught, as others talked, but she was NEVER taught. What Mary DID KNOW was that there would, one day, come a Messiah, and all young girls, who lived to marry and have babies, hoped that they might be the blessed woman to birth that child. Their belief was this babe would grow to manhood and rescue Israel from Roman reign. What Mary DID KNOW was limited to what the men knew, and even their picture of the Christ-tocome was skewed. The men expected a victorious warrior, a ruler to sit on the throne of David - a King who would release them all from persecution. Perhaps Mary was looking forward to a throne, not a tomb; a castle, not a cross. I know one thing - Mary didn't know Isaiah-the Prophet's words that it would be a virgin who would conceive, for her first question to the angel (after he settled her fears) was, "How can this be when I have not known a man?" If she was blind to that explicit truth, to what else was she blind? No one saw the Messiah as Isaiah painted Him in chapter 53: a suffering servant. So what did Mary know? All we know for certain is that Mary DID KNOW what the angel told her, and every word built one upon another until they crescendoed in her mind: I will be the Mother of the Christ. 17
Page 1 and 2: I Dropped Baby Jesus An Advent Devo
Page 3 and 4: TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 4 Su
Page 5 and 6: Sunday, Nov 29 - What If? John 15:2
Page 7 and 8: Tuesday, Dec 1 - Repent for the Kin
Page 9 and 10: season to reflect on your own Jesus
Page 11 and 12: Friday, Dec 4 - In the Wait Once ag
Page 13 and 14: Sunday, Dec 6 - Peace on Earth This
Page 15: Tuesday, Dec 8 - O Come Let Us Ador
Page 19 and 20: Friday, Dec 11 - What Do I Know? I
Page 21 and 22: Saturday, Dec 12 - Advent is Near!
Page 23 and 24: Monday, Dec 14 - Pregnant With the
Page 25 and 26: Wednesday, Dec 16 - I’ll Be Home
Page 27 and 28: Friday, Dec 18 - Every Knee Shall B
Page 29 and 30: Am I? If I'm a Mary, then I am a su
Page 31 and 32: Monday, Dec 21 - Who Am I (3)? So f
Page 33 and 34: Tuesday, Dec 22 - Who Am I (4)? Som
Page 35 and 36: Wednesday, Dec 23 - Jesus Didn’t
Page 37 and 38: Thursday, Christmas Eve - It’s Co
Page 39: Thursday, Christmas Day - He Came f

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