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The video of this little girl singing The Lords Prayer has been viewed more than 10million times. You will see why.
I wrote an entire post about the prayer and deleted it. There’s really nothing to add.
Listen to the words. Watch her sweet face. This speaks for itself.
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
All the kings horses and all the kings men
Couldn’t put Humpty Dumpty together again
Remember that poem?
Kind of a bleak picture isn’t it. Every body falls at one time or another. Whether it is a financial mess, a moral failure, a relationship breakdown or a personal defeat, it isn’t a matter of IF you will fall, it is a matter of WHEN you will fall. Yep, I have been there too.
Many years ago, in a galaxy far far away, there was a television commercial promoting beer. The commercial featured several young people precariously perched on a catamaran sailing through the water. As spray hit the lens of the camera, a dramatic voice announced, “You only go around once! Reach for all the gusto you can get.” Then the ad encouraged the viewer to drink their beer.
The ad was brilliant and deceptive.
As I watch television today, I am amazed at the major news networks near total neglect of The Person that Christmas is really all about. When did the FCC decide that the name of Jesus can’t be uttered over the airwaves?
www.newsbusters.org recently ran a blog that reminded us that at least for NBC ABC and CBS there is still no room at the inn. They pointed to a study by the Media Research Center’s Culture and Media Institute that shows that in their evening news coverage of “Christmas” in the two years from Oct. 1, 2008, to Sep 30, 2010 the networks almost completely neglected stories about family, religion, and the blessings that Americans enjoy.
Just seven stories out of 527 (1.3 percent) mentioned the deity in two years of network evening news coverage. Evidently God and Jesus are forbidden words for the networks.
The study showed that in stories about Christmas, more words were spoken about Ping Pong than God and the Underwear Bomber got more coverage than Jesus.
After watching the news over the past several days, I turned to my wife Diane last night and said, “The world is watching the church in action.” Thousands of believers who were themselves suffering personal loss are serving the poor in Haiti. Many have been there for years making a difference even before the earthquake struck. The efforts of these who are God’s feet on the ground can’t be hidden. You couldn’t miss the faces of hundreds of college students and high school groups from churches across America who were in Haiti before the disaster with a mission to help the beautiful people of this impoverished country. Hundreds if not thousands of them are among those who perished.
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