{"id":3421,"date":"2023-12-23T09:43:32","date_gmt":"2023-12-23T15:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/?p=3421"},"modified":"2023-12-23T09:43:32","modified_gmt":"2023-12-23T15:43:32","slug":"the-specialty-of-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/2023\/12\/the-specialty-of-december\/","title":{"rendered":"The Specialty of December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>December is a special month for me for several reasons.\u00a0\u00a0My grandfather Crawford\u2019s birthday was Dec. 2. My Dad\u2019s birthday was Dec. 19. His sister\u2019s birthday (my Aunt) was Dec. 22. My birthday is Dec. 30. On December 7, I was in an automobile wreck and sustained a broken second vertebrae of the neck, re-directing my plans for the future. As I lay in the hospital with doctors calling me a miracle (should have been either killed or paralyzed according to them), I made friends with Hospital Chaplain, Joe Fred Luck, and determined that God had spared my life to be a Hospital Chaplain.\u00a0\u00a0That, of course, changed during my Seminary student years, but to this day, I look back on those December weeks in the hospital as a significant turning point in my life. Of course December is also the month when, on Christmas, we celebrate the birth of Jesus. So here are five of my favorite Christmas quotes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cChristmas is a togethery sort of holiday. That&#8217;s my favorite kind.\u201d Winnie the Pooh<\/li>\n<li>\u201cOne of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas Day. Don&#8217;t clean it up too quickly.\u201d Andy Rooney<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWhen we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things\u2014not the great occasions\u2014give off the greatest glow of happiness.&#8221; Bob Hope<\/li>\n<li>\u201cChristmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.\u201d <em>Norman Vincent Peale<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\u201cFor unto us a child is born, to us a a son is given.\u201d Isaiah 9:6<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December is a special month for me for several reasons.\u00a0\u00a0My grandfather Crawford\u2019s birthday was Dec. 2. My Dad\u2019s birthday was Dec. 19. His sister\u2019s birthday (my Aunt) was Dec. 22. My birthday is Dec. 30. On December 7, I was in an automobile wreck and sustained a broken second vertebrae of the neck, re-directing my&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-morning-manna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3422,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421\/revisions\/3422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}