a little birdie told me so: Sending a Christmas Blessing Your Way

Friday, December 25, 2009

Sending a Christmas Blessing Your Way

God grant you the light in Christmas, which is faith; the warmth of Christmas, which is love; the radiance of Christmas, which is purity; the righteousness of Christmas, which is justice; the belief in Christmas, which is truth; the all of Christmas, which is Christ.
-Wilda English

If we could condense all the truths of Christmas into only three words, these would be the words: "God with us." We tend to focus our attention at Christmas on the infancy of Christ. The greater truth of the holiday is His deity. More astonishing than a baby in the manger is the truth that this promised baby is the omnipotent Creator of the heavens and the earth!
-John F. MacArthur, Jr.

9 comments:

Lisa at GreenbowDecember 25, 2009 at 5:10 AM
Marvelous post Stevie. Cheers.
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UnknownDecember 25, 2009 at 7:10 AM
Merry Christmas, Stevie!
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DarylDecember 25, 2009 at 9:30 AM
Merry Christmas!
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Steve GravanoDecember 25, 2009 at 12:25 PM
Beautiful post. Merry Christmas.
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AnonymousDecember 25, 2009 at 1:35 PM
Stevie,
Great Christmas post! You've said it all. We are having a great Christmas. My son is here and LadyCat's son and his family are coming in a couple of hours...
Merry Christmas!!
The Bach
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Nana Trish is Living the DreamDecember 25, 2009 at 6:42 PM
I pray you and your family are having a glorious Christmas!
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Jill from Killeny GlenDecember 25, 2009 at 9:04 PM
Merry Christmas to you Stevie!!
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UnknownDecember 26, 2009 at 10:38 AM
Merry (day after) Christmas!
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Lora @ my blessed lifeDecember 26, 2009 at 9:36 PM
A wonderful quote by John MacArthur~and a beautiful vintage postcard image!
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...."We were Birds Without Wings. You were a robin and I was a blackbird. And there were some who were eagles or vultures or pretty gold finches, but none of us had wings. For birds with wings nothing changes. They fly where they will and they know nothing about borders and their quarrels are very small. But we are always confined to earth, no matter how much we climb to the high places and flap our arms. Because we cannot fly we are condemned to do things that do not agree with us. Because we have no wings we are pushed into struggles and abominations that we did not seek and then after all that, the years go by. The mountains are leveled. The valleys rise. The rivers are blocked by sand and the cliffs fall into the sea." -Louis De Berniere

Who Said It First?

The phrase "little birdie told me so" may find it's origins in this Bible verse. "Do not revile the king even in your thoughts, or curse the rich in your bedroom, because a bird of the air may carry your words, and a bird on the wing may report what you say" (Ecclesiastes 10:20). The earliest form of the saying was included in John Heywood's collection of proverbs (1546). In 1583, Brian Melbancke wrote in 'Philotimus'" 'I had a little bird, that brought me newes of it.' In 1711, in 'Letter to Stella,' Jonathan Swift came close to the current version: 'I heard a little bird say so.'