Good and Merry Christmas Morning Luke 2

  


  Are you giddy yet? MERRY CHRISTMAS! It is early on Christmas Day 2025, my darling bride and I are away from the Little Hundred Acre Wood for Christmas for the first time in many years! The Wood and all its animals are being tended to by a dear young friend of ours, and we are comfortable being away! It is still about two hours until sunrise, and I am giddy to write to you about the birth of our Lord and Savior, coming to deliver us from death to life eternal. A whole new life lived in harmony with God and His Holy Spirit dwelling within us, in our new heart of flesh!

  Yesterday I was shown some real hospitality and taken on a few tours; one was the Nighthawk Firearms manufacturing facility—I even got to meet the owner of the business! Then a little later another tour of a Bible Museum in Arkansas. They had Bibles dating back to the 1500s and even a 1-inch-tall full miniature Bible printed in the 1800s. There was also a 65-foot-tall statue of Jesus outside on a hilltop that can be seen from Eureka Springs!

Sorry, I digress; let's get to Luke 2 and read a little more about Jesus in the early years. Imagine you have angels come to you and tell you that you will give birth to the Son of God and then you lose Him! But even worse, you don’t even realize you left Him behind in a huge city until after a day’s travel—WHAT? Can you imagine those prayers on the way back to the big city? Lord… where do I start here? You see, I sort of made the first Home Alone movie and have left Your Son alone in a big city…I am soooo sorry! Jesus was twelve at this point and was, of course, in the Temple asking and answering questions with the religious leaders. After all, He is Jesus, and I can’t imagine He didn’t understand who He was!

  Well, maybe I already wrote too much here. Click the link below and listen to a great audiobook version provided to us all by our friends at The Blue Letter Bible, AKA BLB.ORG.

  Merry Christmas and talk with you soon!

https://www.blueletterbible.org/audio_video/popPlayer.cfm?type=nasb_n&b=42&c=2

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