Monday, December 24, 2007

Merry Christmas!

Regardless of your beliefs, I hope you get a chance to reflect on what matters most to you.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

"One solitary life"
(some historical facts to consider):

He was born in an obscure village,
the child of a peasant woman.
He grew up in still another village where he worked in a carpenter shop until he was thirty.
Then for three years he was an itinerant preacher.

He never wrote a book.
He never held an office.
He never had a family or owned a house.
He didn't go to college.
He never visited a big city.
He never traveled more than a hundred miles from the place he was born.
He did none of the things one usually associates with greatness.
He had no credentials but himself.

He was only thirty three when the tide of public opinion turned against him.
His friends ran away.
He was turned over to his enemies and went through the mockery of a trial.
He was nailed to a cross between two thieves.
While he was dying, his executioners gambled for his clothing, the only property he had on earth.
When he was dead, he was laid in a borrowed grave through the pity of a friend.

Yet all the armies that ever marched,
all the navies that ever sailed,
all the parliaments that ever sat,
all the kings that ever reigned,
all put together....
have not affected the life of humankind as much as that one solitary life.

Merry Christmas to all!

December 25, 2007 7:29 AM

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