A Merry Little Christmas Remove far from me vanity and lies, give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me. Proverbs 30:8 KJV A smaller stage could not be imagined when considering the birth of Christ. His humble beginnings, in a manger, seemed unworthy of the Son of God. We would have naturally expected a grand performance with a show stopping finish. In our estimation, His arrival in Bethlehem should have been played out in the world’s largest thea

Fate is the idea of forces beyond our control shaping our world and lives. It is a nameless, faceless monster eating up our days with a voiceless dominance. Fate is a cruel taskmaster leaving us impotent and numb. It threatens to castrate us from any contribution to the story of life. It is a doctrine that the child of God should reject. Shakespeare, in Henry the V, places on the lips of the soldier Pistol these words concerning fate, it is “giddy Fortune's furious fickle whe