Thursday, December 19, 2024

Some Markers of the God Season

 O Love


That little link goes to one of the songs performed byt eh high school honor choir I mention in a post below tht one of my grandsons participated in  and this is the song I have to call my fvorite of all they sang although I like a lot of the others too.  O Love.  It sil olmakes me cry if I haven't heard it in a while.  All those lovely  blencded voices of teenage boys.  Singing about the God who is Lovew.  I'd like to think their own individual souls inhabit the words a as those words grip me but that's probably just an illusion of the lovely lsound they make singing it.  My grandson told me that the younger boys were bored with many of the songs they sang that day becaue they are just too mature ofor them.  nevertheless they sing them beautifully.

I alsjus heard again the Uncommon Knowledge rountable with Steven Meyer, aDSouglass Murray and Tom Holland who are talking about the possibility of the reality aof god from the point of view of men who have seen evidence for the existence of such a being yet don't believe in Him.   These dayhs I often think to myself that it shouldn't be that difficult to realize that he xists.  All you have to do is read the passage about jesus' appearnace to Doubting Thomas after His resurrection to prove to him that He is in fact alive although He was dead, since Thomas refused to believe it unless he saw it with his own two eyes.  Jesus gave him that experience and he believed, but said those who did not need such proof but believed those who had seen hiHim and told others about His being raised from thed dead should be believed.  Seems so simple to me thse days that all you have to do is belive that passage.  It's quite believable.  

It' also the time of year when I usually listen to the Messiah , maybe a few times, and may also watch the video documentary at You Tube titled the Star of bethlehem, in which lawyer Rich Larson investigates the evidence to find out what the star was that scripture says heraleded the birth of Jesus to the Magi who came from the East to worship Him.   Larson got an astronomy program and did quite a bit of research into the history of attempts to locate the star, then in my opinion founjd it with the program.  And found other things as well about how God uses the celestial objects of the Jozdiac to send us a message about His gift of the Messiah.    you can find it at You Tube.  I thought it had been taken down but then I found it again.