{"id":1700,"date":"2017-11-26T13:10:01","date_gmt":"2017-11-26T18:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/?p=1700"},"modified":"2017-12-03T15:51:05","modified_gmt":"2017-12-03T20:51:05","slug":"what-if","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/26\/what-if\/","title":{"rendered":"What if\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

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All I want for Christmas\u2026<\/h6>\n
World peace?<\/h6>\n
Good-will to all men?<\/h6>\n
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What if Christmas-peace<\/em> began in a small town?<\/h6>\n
Where warmth and love and joy abounds<\/h6>\n
All wrapped up in a blanket\u2026<\/h6>\n
A new born babe was found\u2026<\/h6>\n
Where strangers were met by angels unaware<\/h6>\n
Bringing joy and good news, their voices declare<\/h6>\n
<\/h6>\n
Behold the Savior of the world!<\/em><\/h6>\n
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He is the reason we celebrate!<\/h6>\n
Giving, out of love, it\u2019s not too late\u2026<\/h6>\n
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Christmas jingles and lights galore\u2026<\/h6>\n
Santa and elves we all adore\u2026<\/h6>\n
<\/h6>\n
But somewhere in a tiny town<\/h6>\n
A babe was born, which Mary bore\u2026<\/h6>\n
Shepherds came to see the child,<\/h6>\n
But not to buy in a department store\u2026<\/h6>\n
But to share the joy of Christ the Lord!<\/h6>\n
<\/h6>\n
The son of God waits patiently\u2026<\/h6>\n
Graciously and humbly<\/h6>\n
<\/h6>\n
While\u2026<\/h6>\n
<\/h6>\n
We rush about in holiday stress\u2026<\/h6>\n
One more toy, party, suit, and dress\u2026<\/h6>\n
All I want for Christ-mas\u2026<\/h6>\n
Telling Santa, all of this\u2026<\/h6>\n
But where, oh, where, is Jesus?<\/h6>\n
What if\u2026<\/h6>\n
Christmas was holy, full of peace and joy\u2026<\/h6>\n
Filling the hearts of every man, woman, girl, and boy?<\/h6>\n
~M. S. O\u2019Neill November 26, 2017<\/h6>\n
Luke 2:8-14 New King James Version (NKJV) <\/em><\/strong>Glory in the Highest<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n
Now there were in the same country shepherds living out in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night. And behold, an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were greatly afraid. Then the angel said to them, \u201cDo not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people. For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. And this will be the sign to you: You will find a Babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.\u201d<\/em><\/h6>\n
And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying:<\/em><\/h6>\n
\u201cGlory to God in the highest,
\nAnd on earth peace, goodwill toward men!\u201d<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

All I want for Christmas\u2026 World peace? Good-will to all men? What if Christmas-peace began in a small town? Where warmth and love and joy abounds All wrapped up in a blanket\u2026 A new born babe was found\u2026 Where strangers were met by angels unaware Bringing joy and good news, their voices declare Behold the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8aPxH-rq","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1700"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1732,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700\/revisions\/1732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}