[Syrupmakers] Today's Headlines?

[DandCdean at cs.com]

Hello Syrup-Makers,

Was it just today's headlines?  Travelers stranded without proper 
accommodations and all the hotels and motels filled to capacity.  Prosperity and 
affluence for some while others huddled in poverty, cold, and darkness.  The weight of 
heavy taxation drove many to the ground.

Was it just this week that the air was filled with racial tension and 
distrust for authorities?  That your doors were closed at darkness because of unsafe 
city streets?  That religious leaders in whom you had so much trust failed 
you?  That young men stood at arms trying to protect us from unpopular wars in 
far places?

Sounds like today's headlines, doesn't it?  Yet, in fact, these were the 
headlines in Bethlehem so many years ago.  From the deep travail of that gloomy 
time there came a shimmering hope, and the angels proclaimed, "For unto you is 
born this day in the City of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord."

That manger child grew into manhood to face a martyr's death for the highest 
and finest ideals humankind can ever imagine.  Today, Jesus Christ is still 
the hope of the world.

             Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Don and Carol Dean.

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