Dec.20.01: Light For The Day - "The Birth Of Jesus" -- Isaiah 9:6 (NIV) "For to us a child is born, to us a son is given,  and the government will be on his shoulders.  And he will be called Wonderful Counselor,  Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace." -------------------------- What can I give Him, Poor as I am? If I were a sepherd, I would bring a lamb, If I were a Wise Man, I would do my part, -- Yet what can I give Him? Give my heart. -- Christina Rossetti -------------------------------------- The birth of Jesus is the sunrise of the Bible.  Towards 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. -- Henry Van Dyke -------------------------------- -- John 3:16 (NIV) "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,  that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." -- John 1:1-5 (NIV) 1 In the beginning was the Word,  and the Word was with God,  and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made;  without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of men. 5 The light shines in the darkness,  but the darkness has not understood it."