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This has been a real, well, a really…err…memorable year. That’s about the only thing you can say for it. This year we discovered that good was actually bad, and bad was actually good! 

I have read many articles and opinions on the fact that Christ came into the world to die for you sins, but the way he died – and willingly. How can I wrap my head around that? How, as a very fallible human being could you ever muster up the nerve to do that? Look again at what Isaiah said about it many years before it actually happened.

Before starting I can say without a doubt that this article is going to make me unpopular, at least, more so than I already am. Years ago, this legend was born because a generous man wanted to give the children something on what was considered the most important day of the year – the birth of Christ. He wanted to give good gifts to the children as a reminder of the most important gift that was ever given. 

Ok, you just bought that beautiful nativity set. It is gorgeous. Everything looks perfect. Mary, Joseph, Baby Jesus, shepherds, donkeys, cows, sheep, goats, wise men…(screeching halt here). Wise men? Just why do we see wise men in all nativity scenes. It took almost two years for the wise men to find the baby. Wandering around all thru the wilderness for years, looking for the promise of the Messiah, but having trouble getting there. Too busy looking up; too busy to look out; too busy following that star.

In the beginning God formed a perfect world. Adam & Eve were perfect creations in a perfect world. Satan came along in the form of a serpent and got them to do the very thing that they were commanded not to do. The age of innocency was over. They could not go back after they were evicted from the perfect world.

You are kidding me? Do you mean to tell me after all we’ve been through this year we are supposed to take a day off and be thankful again??!!  I would have thought we would just skip that this year. Our elected officials have gone off the deep end, thrown out the baby with the bathwater, gone cuckoo! After this dreadful couple of years, we are supposed to be thankful!!

When my children were growing up I used to read them a story about a badger and his wife. The badger, according to his wife, could do nothing right. She yelled at him constantly. He could do nothing right. No matter where he went, she followed after him yelling and nagging. Finally, the only way he got any peace was to climb up on the roof and go to sleep under the stars. The moral of the story was Proverbs 25:24

“It is better to dwell in the corner of a housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.”

It is near the end of the Year 2021. It has been almost a century since our country went through what is known as the “Great Depression”. The Depression sent most of the country into such poverty that finally the government tried to ease the situation off some an create the welfare program. The welfare program was supposed to get the populace over and out of the depression. The trouble that ensued was the government created a part of our society that was completely dependent on the government for pretty much all of their living – the welfare society.

I don’t know about you, but I have a tendency to open my mouth and put my foot into it. In other words, I speak before I think. More often than not I regret it the moment it comes out of my mouth. One of the frustrating things about this is there seems to be no limit to how many times it can happen. I am dumbfounded as to why I can’t slap a whole horse into my mouth. (You know, how we say we are hungry enough to eat a horse, it’s is a miracle that I cannot actually do it!)

Have you noticed that sometimes you make big elaborate plans and they do not always work out? You will plan a vacation for a year and have all these great things you want to do on your trip, but someone gets sick or hurt, or your job says there is a big job and they cannot have you go on this week after all. All those plans, right down the drain!