Just a Sampling of Why I have the Greatest Mom in the World

For those of you who have met her, you already know...but this is the email I received on Christmas from my mom...she is a Genghis Khan buff, which explains one comment...enjoy!

Love you, Mom!

...thinking about Christmas:

I don't know how Mary got to Bethlehem..pregnant....we say she rode a

donkey, but that's not in the Bible

The Shepherds didn't hear music when the Angels came to them. It was an

announcement...not to music

(the angels sang together at creation , but not in Bethlehem)

Genghis Khan's son married a daughter of a chief of a Christian Persian

Tribe (1205..or about) and her father, in order to be chief, had to be a

direct descendant of one of the wise men....(isn't that cool?)

The inn in Bethlehem that was 'full' ...in Greek...it isn't a public

inn. There is a different word used in the Good Samaritan story for

inn..that that word meant public inn. This inn was a 'guest room' probably

in a relative's house because Joseph was of the house of David and went

there to be taxed. So he probably was staying with relatives..and the

'coming' baby wasn't his...or theirs. So the relatives possibly shunned

them and put them in the lower level with the animals. Another verification

of John 1....He came to his own creation (neuter noun...'his own'.) and his

own people rejected him. The rejection began during 'labor'.....heartbreaking, isn't it?

The star that the wise men followed wasn't a 'spot light' or Herod could

have followed it himself. I think it was an angel. They are often referred

to as stars......

Fun to think about!

Merry Christmas