[msb-alumni] Re: OT: The Christmas Pageant
- From: Steve <pipeguy920@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <msb-alumni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 13:22:12 -0500
Oh, that is great.
I remember when our oldest, Lance, was about two. All of a sudden, Shannon
heard him in the living room breaking an egg. She said "What are you
doing?"
He said "I'm hatching it, I'm hatching it."
Merry Christmas to all,
Steve
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From: friend_bride_wife
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Sent: Monday, December 22, 2014 11:09 AM
Subject: [msb-alumni] OT: The Christmas Pageant
The Christmas Pageant
My husband and I had been happily married (most of the time) for five
years but hadn't been blessed with a baby. I decided to do some serious
praying and promised God that
if he would give us a child, I would be a perfect mother, love it with
all my heart and raise it with His Word as my guide.
God answered my prayers and blessed us with a son.
The next year God blessed us with another son.
The following year, he blessed us with yet another son.
The year after that we were blessed with a daughter.
My husband thought we'd been blessed right into poverty. We now had
four children, and the oldest was only four years old.
I learned never to ask God for anything unless I meant it, as a
minister once told me, "If you pray for rain, make sure you carry an
umbrella."
I began reading a few verses of the Bible to the children each day as
they lay in their cribs...
I was off to a good start. God had entrusted me with four children and
I didn't want to disappoint Him.
I tried to be patient the day the children smashed two dozen eggs on
the kitchen floor searching for baby chicks.
I tried to be understanding when they started a hotel forhomeless frogs
in the spare bedroom, although it took me nearly two hours to catch all
twenty-three frogs.
When my daughter poured ketchup all over herself and rolled up in a
blanket to see how it felt to be a hot dog,I tried
to see the humor rather than the mess.
In spite of changing over twenty-five thousand diapers, never eating a
hot meal and never sleeping for more than thirty
minutes at a time, I still thank God daily for my children.
While I couldn't keep my promise to be a perfect mother, (I didn't even
come close), I did keep my promise to raise them in the Word of God.
I knew I was missing the mark just a little when I told My daughter we
were going to church to worship God, and
she wanted to bring a bar of soap along to "wash up" Jesus, too.
Something was lost in the translation when I explained that God gave us
everlasting life, and my son thought it was generous of God to give us
his "last wife."
My proudest moment came during the children's Christmas pageant. My
daughter was playing Mary, two of my sons were shepherds and my
youngest son was a wise man. This was their moment to shine.
My five-year-old shepherd had practiced his line, "We found the babe
wrapped in swaddling clothes." But he was nervous and said, "The baby
was wrapped in
wrinkled clothes."
My four-year-old "Mary" said, "That's not 'wrinkled clothes,' silly.
That's dirty, rotten clothes."
A wrestling match broke out between Mary and the shepherd and was
stopped by an angel, who bent her halo and lost her left wing.
I slouched a little lower in my seat when Mary dropped the doll
representing Baby Jesus, and it bounced down the aisle crying, "Mama-mama."
Mary grabbed the doll, wrapped it back up and held it tightly as the
wise men arrived.
My other son stepped forward wearing a bathrobe and a paper crown,
knelt at the manger and announced, "We are the three wise men, and we
are bringing gifts of gold, common sense and fur."
The congregation dissolved into laughter, and the pageant got a
standing ovation.
"I've never enjoyed a Christmas program as much as this one," laughed
the pastor, wiping tears from his eyes. "For the rest of my life, I'll
never hear the Christmas story without thinking of gold, common sense and
fur."
"My children are my pride and my joy and my greatest blessing," I said
as I dug through my purse for an aspirin.
--
Christine Diller
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"It is Christmas in the mansion,
Yule-log fires & silken frocks;
It is Christmas in the cottage,
Mother's filling little socks.
It is Christmas on the highway,
In the thronging, busy mart;
But the dearest, truest Christmas,
Is the Christmas in the heart"
-- Author Unknown
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