Still a Wish -- Peace On Earth, Goodwill to All

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With the hustle and bustle of the holiday season and the ever- present promise of Santa's generosity so fresh in mind, it is all too easy to forget the special birth that so many celebrate today.

Yet, he might feel right at home, in some respects, in today's world. His world echoed with the sounds of armed conflict -- the marching cadence of Caesar's legions. Indeed, it was because Caesar Augustus decreed that the people of Judea be taxed, each in his own city, that his parents found themselves in Bethlehem when it was time that he be born. The world of his time was no stranger to oppression, misery and uncertainty.

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Still a Wish -- Peace On Earth, Goodwill to All

Thus, the song the shepherds heard while tending their flocks in the chill, starlit hours of that first Christmas night must ...

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