Boy, can we use some joy about now in this world. I recall sitting around the piano at Sprinkle House on Madison campus singing one of the Kingston Trio’s hits of the late 1950’s. …….words went something like this. “ They’re rioting in Africa,,they’re starving in Spain. There’s hurricanes in Florida, and Texas needs rain. The whole world is festering with unhappy souls, the French hate the Germans, the Germans hate the Poles. Italians hate Yugoslavs, South Africa hates the Dutch, and I don’t like anybody very much”. Change the nations and the year could be 2019.
Let’s take a recess from that. Let’s find a different focus on what is truly important. Right now I’m getting dressed to go to Sunday School and teach some great people how God’s gift to us came to the simple people first. Not Rome or Kings but to an insignificant priest of the temple and his wife Elizabeth, and to a lowly teen with beautiful angel visits and their thankful songs of serving God in whatever capacity asked. Can we do less? Merry Christmas
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