Let me make sure I've got this right. One night in December - in the middle of the rainy season - Joseph returns home from work and announces to his wife, Mary (a young lass of thireteen or fourteen in her ninth month of pregnancy) that they must immediately depart for Bethlehem in order to fulfill some vague scriptural prophecy. It's a journey of over one hundred and thirty kilometers that passes through some of the most treacherous and hostile territory in all of Jerusalem. However, Mary, despite being jerked and jostled on the back of a jackass and struggling on foot through thick muck and mire, manages to complete this arduous trek without hemorrhaging, breaking her water, or using harsh language. No doubt this has to be another one of those take it on 'faith' stories, right?
|
I can think of many amusing parallels. For example, 'the Borough of ... announces: Miss Jones, the splendid principal of our grammar school, h...
|
Liberalism -- it is well to recall this today -- is the supreme form of generosity; it is the right which the majority concedes to minorities and hence it is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet. It announces the determination to share existence with the enemy; more than that, with an enemy which is weak.
|
The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter.
|
It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.
|
Deuteronomy 13:1:
If a prophet, or one who foretells by dreams, appears among you and announces to you a sign or wonder,
(NIV)
IF A prophet arises among you, or a dreamer of dreams, and gives you a sign or a wonder,
(AMP)
If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder,
(KJV)
|
A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.
|