http://emu.edu/now/devotions/2010/12/24/beyond-words/ default Thu, 14 Apr 2011 23:09:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://emu.edu/now/devotions/2010/12/24/beyond-words/comment-page-1/#comment-1679 SaraAlice Zimmerly Mon, 27 Dec 2010 01:23:23 +0000 http://emu.edu/blog/devotions/?p=1022#comment-1679 Dear Deb, I appreciate your reference to your grandfather's writing and I like his "color coding". I also like the King James words that the shepherds were "sore afraid". When Hurrican Andrew hit our home I stood at strict attention all night wondering if the roof would hold, hearing the glass windows breaking on the porch, wincing when each tree uprooted knowing that there was going our livelyhood, wondering wheither we would live or not, and if the neighbors lived.Yellow green lightening showed the pine trees going horizontal in the screaming wind. My sisters stood beside me and the children were pillowed in our grandfather's rocking chair - asleep. The day the storm passed, I realized that I had sore muscles everywere . It was the only time I remember being terrified. I was sore afraid. That's how the shepherds felt when they saw/heard the vast multitude of the heavenly host. They came from Heaven, for God's sake! Would the shepherds live through that? it was all encompassing, and overwhelming. Nothing prepared them for it and they were sore afraid. It would be interesting to know what Mary was thinking. Thanks for sharing. SaraAlice Dear Deb,
I appreciate your reference to your grandfather’s writing and I like his “color coding”.
I also like the King James words that the shepherds were “sore afraid”.
When Hurrican Andrew hit our home I stood at strict attention all night wondering if the roof would hold, hearing the glass windows breaking on the porch, wincing when each tree uprooted knowing that there was going our livelyhood, wondering wheither we would live or not, and if the neighbors lived.Yellow green lightening showed the pine trees going horizontal in the screaming wind. My sisters stood beside me and the children were pillowed in our grandfather’s rocking chair – asleep. The day the storm passed, I realized that I had sore muscles everywere . It was the only time I remember being terrified. I was sore afraid.
That’s how the shepherds felt when they saw/heard the vast multitude of the heavenly host. They came from Heaven, for God’s sake! Would the shepherds live through that? it was all encompassing, and overwhelming. Nothing prepared them for it and they were sore afraid.
It would be interesting to know what Mary was thinking. Thanks for sharing. SaraAlice

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