6 Geese a laying

 

I can just hear my English teacher in the back of my head saying "Humans lie, chickens lay" as she explained the difference between the verbs lay and lie.  On the sixth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, six geese a laying.  In the Christmas carol "The Twelve Days of Christmas"  the six geese a laying represent the six days of creation.  Six days which serve as a testimony to the awesomeness of our God.  The first three words of both the book of Genesis and the Gospel of John are "In the beginning."  In the beginning God stepped out of nothing and called order out of chaos.  He created this world for us and it it our duty as his faithful stewards to preserve it. 

Psalm 8 is a powerful testament to the awesomeness of God's creation.

O Lord, our Lord,  how excellent is thy name in all the earth!
Who hast set thy glory above the heavens.
Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings  hast thou
ordained strength because of thine enemies, thou 
mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
When I consider thy heavens, the word of thy fingers, 
the moon and the stars which thou hast ordained;
What is man that thou art mindful of him?  And the son of
man, that thou visitest him?
For thous hast made him a little lower than the angels, and
hast crowned him with glory and honour.
Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy
hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:
All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;
The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and 
whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!

I know that as the new year rolls around, people have resolved to live a healthier lifestyle and incorporating exercise into their routine.  In addition to this resolve, take time out to enjoy the beauty of God's creation.  On the sixth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me a wonderful world full of geese, calling birds, French hens, turtle doves and partridges along with beasts of the fields and creatures of the sea in the back drop of his majestic landscape.  O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!

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Christmastide Blessings and Peace,
Karsten