Have we ever done this? Have we wanted to dial **Quick and get what we want… slim thighs, no belly, well beating heart, more money, successful lawsuit… dial **Quick!!!!! When my doctor tells me I must choose… Healthy eating and exercise or fat and sluggish. I complain, (whine?) "I want ice cream and champagne!!! I want to stay up until midnight! I want it all! I want, I want I want!!!" Do we go like this to prayer? Do we only pray when we want something? I’m reading a book on Mercy which asserts that God wants for us… "only good, only health, only joy… dignity and sonship", but what do we do? Either ignore Him or even say… "He isn’t here." Who can look at the many Christmas displays of Baby Jesus held in his loving Mother’s arms, guarded by Joseph… heralded by angels; who can look and then forget? Why do we have to understand everything about the miracle-mystery of creation and Emmanuel – God with us? I have a friend who tells me "a spoon is a spoon… I can bang it and make noise; I can feel it." "True," I say, "We can’t see God, or even hear his still small whisper… " But men and women who lived 2017 years ago saw and felt his touch and they wrote about it… witness and testimony and we have their words today in Scripture. So if you don’t believe, please grab a Bible… any Bible, and look at Genesis (first book), and then look at John (the Gospel back in the New Testament). Look, read… We have a great witness in John. Please read, and remember way back when you were little and someone sang… "Jesus loves me this I know, for the Bible tells me so!" Listen and believe! Be kind! God bless you!
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