Around south Alabama we're saying, "Merry Christmas!" all over the place! Everywhere I go and everyone I see is smiling real friendly like and declaring a hearty, "Merry Christmas!" Because the Merry Christmas greeting is being threatened by the anti-God crowd, it's being celebrated around here like never before!
I couldn't help but think back to 1968 before our nation was "changed and transformed" by the politically correct gang, when Apollo 8, the 1st manned mission to circle the Moon, entered lunar orbit on Christmas Eve. Three astronauts-Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and William Anders-did a live t.v. broadcast, which was at the time, the most watched program ever. They showed pictures of the Earth and Moon seen from Apollo 8 and ended the broadcast taking turns reading from the book of Genesis. "We are now approaching a lunar sunrise and, for all the people back on Earth, the crew of Apollo 8 has a message that we would like to send to you. "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth..'.And we close with good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas-and God bless all of you, all of you on the good Earth."
Americans were blessed that Christmas Eve fairly long ago with a "Merry Christmas" greeting from outer space to earth, a good reminder of the first Merry Christmas greeting from even farther in outer space-from heaven itself, "when God became man and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth." John 1:14
Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas "to the uttermost parts of the earth!" Merry Christmas forever and ever! Amen.
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