THE SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENTS - for Just A Minute Radio - Friday 111223

We have almost arrived at the wonderful time for the Sugar Plumb Fairies to dance – Christmas Eve tomorrow.

 

So it’s a very special treat for the kiddo’s… at least it was for me. I often am transported back to times when our two maiden aunts who lived near us in Southwest Virginia (and it still wasn’t very near in that New River Valley area that still looks like wilderness) would make a big deal out of Christmas Eve for my ‘little’ brother and me.

 

I’m about four years older than he is and I’m not really sure I was a ‘good’ BIG brother. I think I kept him from ‘taggin’ along when I was playing with the bigger guys.  Of course that kept him out of a lot of trouble… but it was also something that I’m sure ‘hurt his feelings… at least looking back on it I’m pretty sure that was the case.

 

Anyway – Christmas Eve meant after dark we were ‘dodging’ Santa’s sleigh. You know if HE saw you were still up and about he might not stop at all at our house. (L)… and that wasn’t pleasant to contemplate. My Aunt Emma was always teasing us with pretending to see Santa nearby and we would duck down behind the driver or passenger seats in the old ’35 Ford. [I wonder where that old car is now?  Dad had to put three or four rebuilt engines in it up through my college days – I didn’t have access to it. Times were hard… Dad made everything count… and buying a new car on a mail clerk’s salary during the Depression wasn’t a high priority. I’m glad I could ride the bus for 10cents. 

 

I gotta get out of here.  My producer Angelo wants me to get the programs ‘in the can’ for next week. So… I’d better get with it.

 

Have a great Christmas everybody. Praise the Lord and we’ll see you before New Years’

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Cordially, IN HIM

 

Jack

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“JUST A MINUTE”

THE SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENTS        

            Just a Minute: Today we conclude the story of Jesus’ birth:

When the wise men departed, the angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.

So Joseph took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt: And was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son.

Then Herod, when he saw he was mocked by the wise men, was angry and sent forth, to slay all the children that were in Bethlehem from two years old and under.

It was fulfilled which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying: “In Rama was heard, lamentation, Rachel weeping for her children because they were not.

But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt -- saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the young child's life.

And he arose, and took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel – and being warned of God in a dream, he turned aside into the parts of Galilee: And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene.

So we conclude the Christmas story today with our best wish for a blessed Christmas for you and our families. <> I’m Jack Buttram. (END)            

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