Dec.18.00: Light For The Day - "The Road To Bethlehem" -- Luke 2:15 (NLT) "When the angels had returned to heaven, the shepherds said to each other, Come on, let’s go to Bethlehem! Let’s see this wonderful thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about." -------------------- It isn't far to Bethlehem town -- It is anywhere that Christ comes down And finds in some one's  Shining face A welcome, and a biding place. The road to Bethlehem Runs right through The homes of people Like me and you. (Anonymous) ----------- The birth of Jesus is the sunrise of the bible. Toward this point the aspirations of the prophets and the poems of the Psalmists were directed as the heads of flowers are turned toward the dawn.  From this point a new day began to flow very silently over the world -- a day of faith and freedom, a day of hope and love. When we remember the high meaning that has come into human life and the clear light that has flooded softly down from the manger-cradle in Bethlehem of Judea, we do not wonder that mankind has learned to reckon history from the birthday of Jesus, and to date all events by the years before or after the nativity of Christ. --------------- It was not the angel's message That gave the Christmas thought Nor yet the gold and incense Which the Wise Men had brought. It was not the star that led them Upon the unkown way; It was the birth of Jesus That makes the Christmas day! -- Annie Johnson Flint