{"id":8131,"date":"2021-12-25T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-25T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/?p=8131"},"modified":"2021-12-18T15:52:14","modified_gmt":"2021-12-18T20:52:14","slug":"christmas-day-be-not-afraid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/christmas-day-be-not-afraid\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Day &#8211; Be Not Afraid!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe title=\"Christmas Day - Be Not Afraid! 12\/25\/21\" allowtransparency=\"true\" height=\"150\" width=\"100%\" style=\"border: none; min-width: min(100%, 430px);\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/player-v2\/?i=xqtz5-115b434-pb&#038;from=pb6admin&#038;share=1&#038;download=1&#038;rtl=0&#038;fonts=Arial&#038;skin=1&#038;font-color=auto&#038;btn-skin=7\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>THE ONLY PLACE WHERE WE HAVE NO FEAR<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The angel Gabriel got back to heaven and rushed up to God and said,&nbsp;<strong><em>&#8220;I&#8217;ve got good news, and I&#8217;ve got bad news.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong>And God said,&nbsp;<strong><em>&#8220;Well, give me the good news first.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;The good news is,&#8221;<\/em><\/strong> said the angel,<em><strong>&#8220;mission accomplished. I&#8217;ve visited those people you told me to visit. I told them what you told me to tell them. And it&#8217;s all accomplished.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God said,<em><strong>&#8220;So what&#8217;s the bad news?&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>&#8220;<strong>The bad news<\/strong><\/em><strong>,&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>the angel said<em>,\u00a0<strong>&#8220;is that those people down there on earth are terrified of you. Every time I visited someone I had to start it off with\u00a0&#8216;fear not,&#8217; because they got so frightened that you were coming too close to them.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God said to the angel<em>,&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;That&#8217;s the reason I have to carry out the plan I&#8217;ve made. You see, I need to go to earth because my people are so frightened. They are so full of fear, and not just of me. They are afraid of everything &#8212; pandemics, vaccines, politicians, the weather\u2026.You name it and they are so afraid. I\u2019ve got to bring a message that they no longer need to be afraid.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The angel said,&nbsp;<strong><em>&#8220;And how are you going to do that, since they&#8217;re so fearful?&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>God said,\u00a0<strong>&#8220;There&#8217;s one place on earth that people are not afraid: that one remaining place is a little baby. My people on earth are not afraid of a baby. When a baby is born they rejoice and give thanks without fear because that&#8217;s the only place left in their lives where they&#8217;re not afraid. So I will go to earth. I will become a little Baby, and they will receive me with no fear at all<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God acted in the only way God could act without overwhelming us and taking away our freedom.&nbsp;God became a tiny Baby.&nbsp;<strong>BABY JESUS TOOK HIS PLACE IN A MANGER SO THAT YOU AND I MIGHT ONE DAY HAVE A HOME IN HEAVEN!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How is the Birth of Our Savior calming YOUR fears about the troubles in our world and the problems in YOUR life this Christmas?<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>EVERYDAY GOD THINKS OF YOU!&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;EVERY HOUR GOD LOOKS AFTER YOU!&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;EVERY MINUTE GOD CARES FOR YOU, BECAUSE EVERY SECOND GOD LOVES YOU!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Have a Blessed Christmas!&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Fr. 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