December 16, 1985
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How wonderful to have been one of the visitors who came to see the infant Jesus that first Christmastide! Perhaps there were some the Bible doesn't mention: curious townspeople or strangers who were in Bethlehem for the tax enrollment as Mary and Joseph were.
One reason people respond so strongly to the parables of Christ Jesus is that they always are framed in terms of believable human circumstances.
When he left my house,At times I was temptedBy the fear, the darkness at noon,The never knowing when/ifHe was coming home.
Perhaps it was Shiphrah and Puah, the Hebrew midwives, who first broke the news that Pharaoh had ordered that all sons newly born to Hebrew mothers be killed at birth by the midwives.
The story of Daniel in the Old Testament tells of tangled factors leading to the sentence that he be thrown into a lions' den.
Genesis tells of a traveler who stopped at a well outside a city in Mesopotamia.
Years ago, in order to attend a camp, I was required to submit a statement of good health signed by a doctor.
I would like to tell of a healing I had several years ago.
During my early years my mother never administered medicine to us children, although there were brief times when we were under a physician's care.
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