2019 November 21 Thursday

2019 November 21 Thursday in Liberty Hill, Texas Ella’s birthday

It began raining about 7:30 this morning. It quit raining about 7:35. It didn’t even register on the radar.

My internal clock woke me at 5 and I started working on a devotion for the day. Then I worked more on the sermon that I began yesterday.

I was passed by an ambulance and a fire truck this morning as I was on my way to work. It appears that there was an accident on Highway 29 East of the intersection with 183 at Seward Junction.

Another exciting day at the empty mall. It would be nice to have enough people to play bridge. Not that we’d play cards, but still it would be nice to have 4 people shopping somewhere in the mall.

Hopefully, when the schools go on break, we will see more kids. Last year the kids were already on break but this time. However, Thanksgiving is 6 days later this year. Which also means that the shopping days between Thanksgiving and Christmas are also nearly a week fewer.

Santa had a lot of time on his hands. I had wanted to write a children’s sermon to go with the main sermon that I’m writing. The subject is Joseph and Mary fleeing to Egypt with the baby Jesus. It is a very grim picture with Herod ordering the massacre of the children. I will leave those details out of the children’s version. I decided to write it in a Dr Seuss style of rhyming couplets. I had time to make some notes.

This is what I wrote:L

Herod the Great was an evil man. Imagine he is the Grinch, if you can.

Herod’s palace was filled with who’s and he hated them all The Young and the old the large and the small.

The Young and the old the large and the small.

He feared they were after his throne.

And it was his throne and his alone.

The wise men came from afar Silently led by an overhead star.

They came to the Palace the place of the king.

Of the Messiah he knew nothing. not a thing.

There’d been no Revolt no uprising.

But the birth of the Messiah, now that was surprising

His scholars said that Bethlehem town,

Was the place a new king would be found.

Herod begged, after you’ve found him.

I’ll send gifts to surround them.

The wise men weren’t fooled by Herod the Grinch.

They’d not come back this way, that’s a cinch

Herod would search the area and town,

And destroy all the boys that he found.

Joseph had a dream late at night,

A horrible dream and he woke with a fright.

The Grinch planned evil for his young son.

Pack up the family and run Joseph run.

Take Jesus, your wife Mary, Flee to Egypt and don’t tary.

Joseph would do as he was told.

He packed up the donkey with frankincense myrrh and gold.

Next went Jesus, Mary and clothes,

Then off to Egypt they goes.

They stayed in that foreign place

Until Herod had died and it was safe.

They returned home as fast as they could.

And Jesus from Joseph learned about wood.

The Carpenter’s son they often said.

But we all know God was his dad.

The baby grew to became a man,

Who could do those things that only God can.

He used a little boys lunch

And fed 5,000, now that’s a bunch

He went for a walk on water. And raised Jarius’s daughter.

And raised Jarius’s daughter.
He was beaten, whipped, and hung on a tree,

to cover our sins for you and for me.

He was dead and buried but, didn’t stay dead.

He rose and went to heaven instead.

He made a way for me and for you,

to go up to heaven and live there too.

God bless and g’nite.

©2019 Thomas E. Williams

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