Daily Advice 12.24.20

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We'll get back to the Stoics in a few days. For now, another ancient writer tells us,

 

Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.

 

Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privily.

 

But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.
 

What's the advice to be found here, you ask? I see at least one per verse:

Not all children are born entirely of the race of men-- and may it not be that in the birth of all children is seen the entrance into this physical world of a Power which is beyond the physical world? (If you have ever been present at the birth of a child, you may answer yes);

Don't humiliate other people in public, even if you think they've done you a great wrong-- attend to your own vices, not those of others; 

And pay attention to your dreams; often they may contain messages from the spiritual world. I would include daydreams in this as well, and remind you that you can enter into these on purpose. 

Merry Christmas.