Farewell Till 2009

The results are in on the ‘Crumby’ poll.  Most of you do not advocate sweeping the crumbs onto the floor.  I’ll have to break the news to them today.  I’m sure it’s going to break their hearts.  One of my boys tried to manipulate the results by voting more then once – but it wouldn’t allow him to since he would be using the same IP address.  Therefore, I didn’t get to vote either since he beat me to it! 

Only a few days till Christmas, most of the gifts are wrapped and we’re all looking forward to spending time with extended family.  Christmas will be at my sisters house this year.  They don’t celebrate Christmas but they humor the rest of us anyway by spending the day with us.

May I suggest a book that I haven’t read in it’s entirety but have thoroughly enjoyed what I have The Little Boy Down the Road: Short Stories and Essays on the Beauty of Family Life by Doug Phillips and available at Vision Forum.  In this book, Mr. Phillips’ writes about his childhood and family life with his wife and children with humor and love.

Until next year – have a beautiful Christmas with family recounting and remembering that glorious night 2,000 years ago when God sent us a gift – a little baby wrapped in swaddling clothes. 

Here’s an inspiring quote by William Branham on Christ’s birth and God’s choosing Bethlehem for the birthplace of Jesus.

Thinking of Bethlehem, and why did it happen to be that it was chosen to be the birthplace of the King of kings? And, you know, Bethlehem is a small place, very small town. I’ve often wondered why God didn’t choose a more religious place for it, for this great event, such as Shiloh. Shiloh was the first place the tent–the ark was set after it crossed Jordan. Or Gilgal, another great religious city; or Zion, on the mountain, another great religious city; or even the proud capital of Jerusalem, with all of its sages and saints through the age. Why didn’t God choose Jerusalem?

Why would He choose Bethlehem? Maybe it looked like He might’ve chose some place, one of the great cities of refuge, that would’ve protected His Son in case that some trouble come up. The refuge places like Ramoth-gilead, that was a great refuge that was built, for the people could run into these towers. Kadesh was another great city of refuge; Hebron, another great city of refuge.

Why God picked on little Bethlehem, and then did not choose these greater cities… They had greater names, and more of a spiritual background.  But, you know, God has a way of doing things, just His Own way about things. I’m so glad He does. See? Sometimes He takes things that doesn’t have a spiritual background, or doesn’t have any background at all.

And that’s why He is God; He can take something that’s nothing, and make something out of it. And then that’s what makes Him God. That’s what makes us love Him. That’s what makes us poor people appreciate Him, because that even though we, poor, with no background, yet God can do great things with us if He ever gets us under His control.

Copyright 2008 Treasuring the Moments