“Season’s Greetings”

Have you ever noticed how the angels in the Christmas story scare the living daylights out of the people they greet?  The angel says to Mary, "Hail, O favored one, the Lord is with you!" (Luke 1:28) and the Favored One nearly faints… I've come to the conclusion that Mary and company's anxiety is perfectly understandable.  After all, it's the case throughout the Bible that whenever God draws near to greet someone it's never just to chit-chat.  It's usually to make a request of that person-- and a humdinger at that! 

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