“Believe It, Or Not” Blog #47
What beliefs make up you who you are? We are the sum total of our belief systems.
Are Santa Claus and Jesus Christ real?
We start out life by going to school, finishing school and then believing in what? STOP a
minute, many of us have no clue what to believe in! The majority of us quit studying
anything after we get out of school. We take on belief systems that “fit into the moment of
wherever we are” and we “never look back”!
FEW PEOPLE STUDY ABOUT HISTORICAL THEOLOGY, THE UNIVERSE, OR THE MAN JESUS?
We refuse to believe in miracles, yet how is a baby really made? How can billions of
different faces be created out of one circular shape? Where to rainbows REALLY come
from and then go to? What do we even know for sure?
Years ago a little girl wrote to the Editor of the New York Sun Newspaper. She asked a
simple question. It has since become history’s most reprinted newspaper editorial!
“DEAR EDITOR:
I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Please tell me the
truth, is there a Santa Claus?“
Signed:
Virginia O’Hanlon.
115 West. 95th St.
New York, NY
Dear Virginia:
“Your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical
age. They do not believe except what they see. They think nothing can BE which is not
comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they’re mens or children’s,
are little. In this great universe of ours, Man is a mere insect, an ant in his intellect, as
compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable
of grasping the whole of truth and all knowledge.
YES, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus! He exists as certainly as LOVE and GENEROSITY and
DEVOTION exist. And they abound and give your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas - how
dreary the world would be IF there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there
were no Virginia’s! There would be no childlike faith, no poetry, no romance to make life
tolerable. We would have no enjoyment except sense and sight. The external light with
which childhood faith fills the world would be extinguished. Not believe in Santa Claus, you
might as well not believe in fairies! The most real things in the world are those that neither
children nor men can see. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders that are
unseen and unseeable in the world. There is a veil covering the unseen world which NOT
the strongest man or even the united strength of all the strongest men that have ever
lived, can tear apart! Only FAITH, poetry, LOVE and romance can push aside that curtain
and view the picture of the supernatural beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real?
Ah….Virginia, in all the world there is nothing else more real and abiding. No Santa Claus?
Thank God! HE lives and HE lives forever. A thousand years from now Virginia, no ten times
ten thousand years from now, HE will continue to make glad the hearts of childhood.”
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Simple belief in something so great is a miracle in and of itself. JUST BELIEVE IN HIS LOVE.
Open your heart and you will feel it.
“One Solitary Life”
HE was born in an obscure village. HE worked in a carpenter shop until HE was thirty.
HE then became an itinerant preacher. HE never held an office. HE never had a
family, or owned a house. HE didn’t go to college. HE had no credentials but himself.
Twenty one centuries have come and gone, and today HE is the central figure of the
whole human race.
All the armies that have ever marched, all the navies that have ever sailed,
All the parliaments that have ever sat, and all the Kings that have ever reigned,
Have not affected the lives of men on this earth,
as much as this one solitary Life. (Jesus Christ)
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C. S. Lewis writes: “Once in our world a stable had something in it that was bigger than
our whole world…..”
How can anyone go out into the night, look at the moon and the stars and not believe?
HE is everything to believe in. HE was love personified. HE is the Christmas miracle. Love is
in every song, every story and every family that has ever lived. Believe now and feel safe.
Believe now and love. Believe and be at Peace.
I say this Christmas Prayer for all of us,
“May we have HIS courage to forgive someone who has hurt us badly. May we continue to
look at life with no regrets. And, may we see each other through Jesus Christ’s eyes only”.
As we come to the end of 2022 let us all remember just how fleeting Life is. None of us
knew as our family gathered together, that it would be Bridget’s last Christmas.
Now listen to Bridget….
Now I believe the soul of Bridget lives on. She is learning, and loving, and listening to
angelic guidance given for her soul’s growth. May she live eternally in the Light of Christ.
A Blessed Merry Christmas to each and everyone of you.
Can you prayerfully ask to see others through Jesus’s eyes only?
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