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    Born For You: Meditations for Advent and Christmas
    Born For You: Meditations for Advent and Christmas
    Born For You: Meditations for Advent and Christmas
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    Born For You: Meditations for Advent and Christmas

    By Kay Brown

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    As you read these reflections—or better still—listen to them being read, don't be surprised if God seems to have drawn a little closer while you were not looking. After all, it is Christmas!
    Peter Neilson, Retired Mission Consultant

    For both those who know the gospels, and for those whose only encounter with Jesus is a memory of the school nativity play, Kay Brown's second book will be a revelation. Her gifts of empathy and imagination enable her to get 'inside the heads' of those who witnessed the events surrounding our Saviour's birth.

    This little book would enhance any bookshelf and be a valuable resource for schools, Sunday schools and libraries everywhere.
    Rosemary Dewar, Work Place Chaplaincy Scotland

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGilead Books Publishing
    Release dateOct 1, 2013
    ISBN9781301034499
    Born For You: Meditations for Advent and Christmas
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    Kay Brown

    Kay is an Ordained Local Minister in the Church of Scotland and a workplace chaplain for the town centre of Falkirk where she lives with her husband John. They have two adult children and four grandchildren.

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      Book preview

      Born For You - Kay Brown

      Born For You:

      Meditations for Advent and Christmas

      by Kay Brown

      Published by Gilead Books Publishing at Smashwords

      Copyright © Kay Brown 2013

      All rights reserved.

      No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher.

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      This book is available in print at Gilead Books Publishing

      All scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by InternationaI Bible Society. Used by permission of Hodder & Stoughton, a member of the Hodder Headline Group. All rights reserved. ‘NIV’ is a trademark of International Bible Society. UK trademark number 1448790.

      Cover design: Nathan Ward

      Illustrations: Anna Tash

      Contents

      Foreword

      Preface

      Acknowledgments

      Blessed-Luke 1:34-38

      Acceptance-Matthew 1: 22-24

      No Room-Luke 2:7

      The Shepherds-Luke 2:10-14

      The Gift-Matthew 2: 10-12

      The Onlooker-Isaiah 11: 1-3

      The King-Matthew 2: 7-8

      A Hope Realised-Isaiah 61: 1-3

      Foreword

      Every story should have a beginning, middle and an end—but not necessarily in that order.

      Whoever said those words recognised how stories can unfold in intriguing ways that surprise us. One paradox of the Christmas story is that this most surprising story of all time—God became a human being!—has lost its capacity to surprise. We think we know the characters and the plot and the underlying subtext—if God's salvation intentions can ever be described as subtext!

      But to be introduced to these familiar stories from an unusual angle is to recapture that capacity to intrigue and to invite us into the surprising mystery again. How did the innkeeper view that busy night when his stable became the labour suite for the Son of God? What was going on in the paranoid mind of Herod that led to a massacre that shares a place alongside the war crimes of today? And were these three men from the East colleagues, or strangers who met in the desert under the light of the one star?

      Seeing through new eyes helps us to hear with new ears. The familiar becomes strange in order to bring us closer than we expect. And the truth ambushes us by surprise.

      Kay Brown has an uncanny ability to enter the inner world of these ancient characters in the Bethlehem saga. She sees, hears, smells, touches and feels the atmosphere around, and listens in on the inner dialogues of exploration and discovery. God slips into their inner world as gently and unobtrusively as he did in that backyard stable whilst Roman Emperors thought they ruled the world.

      As you read these reflections—or better still—listen to them being read, don't be surprised if God seems to have drawn a

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