The Christmas Star

It was late. Past midnight. The sky was utterly dark. The wind whistled through the small, overcrowded town, The silence was deafening, intimidating, and unwelcoming. In a dark alley a cat's screech eerily split the nothing. The streets were still, empty. The houses were dark and quiet. One lone candle shone in a stable. Two people moved inside. Then three. Suddenly, the sky lit up with the light of a thousand brightly shining stars. One star, far more radiant and beautiful than the rest, shone with a sense of great importance. In the stable animals lowed in response to the aggravating interruption of their slumber. A cow grunted and chewed its cud. A pig snorted as it rooted further into the mud. A herd of sheep on the countryside looked up lazily from the grass then continued feeding. The star silently screamed a proclamation to the unhearing village. It shouted the arrival. It pleaded for an audience. Few responded to it. Most scorned it or simply ignored it, far to busy sleeping to wake for even a moment to look at the radiance. The faithful star would watch through the years and be disheartened, excited, afraid, angry, and horrified. If only it's message had been heeded, but then the price would never have been paid. "He'll be back," the star whispers, "and you won't be able to ignore Him twice."

That is just something I wrote last Christmas and I stumbled upon it this morning.

You can't have Christmas without Christ and you can't have a holiday with a Holy day.

Merry Christmas, even if it is politically incorrect.

Under Grace,
Anna

It makes one ponder...

"Image is overrated if it washes off in the rain.
You know you gotta go deeper to go against the grain."

Krystal Meyers' song Anticonformity

What do you think? I agree.

So many times we change ourselves to be what everyone wants, when all everyone wants is what everyone wants. So if we all did what we really wanted, wouldn't we all be happier?

Do we really know what we want? If no one put the pressure on you to do anything, what would you do? If trends were obsolete and peer pressure gone, would we still copy others and wonder what they say behind our backs?
Probably...

Twice-born men battling a once-born world. They won't understand. They can't understand. The rude awakening so many want, won't happen until Christ returns.

In heaven, we will all go against the grain. Meaning the grain will be changed. Or really, the grain is returned to its original perfection.
You may get some splinters, but with God on your side, they will all be in the right places.

Image...overrated. Bottom line. What people think of you and who you are are worlds apart and in the end...does it really matter? I know it stinks. I am a pastor's daughter. Figuratively speaking, I live in a glass house. A foggy glass house. People see what they want to see and say anything they want to.

“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.”
Dr. Seuss

Interesting thoughts and they all came up randomly after I read the Krystal Meyers quote. Sometimes I suprise myself...or not....

Since that is what blogs are all about. And by "that" I mean, opinions. Without an opinion there is nothing. Believe me, I have plenty of opinions.


Under Grace,
Anna