GOD’S HOPE TO THE HOPELESS
God with us! What an amazing thought–the very God of the universe in our midst. The manger in Bethlehem cradles a King–the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. And, amazingly, few who encountered him had any idea who he was. It reminds me of a delightful story of William Lawrence Bragg, at twenty-five the youngest person ever to win the Nobel Prize in physics. Bragg was an avid amateur gardener. When he moved to London to head the Royal Institution, he reluctantly left behind the beautiful Cambridge garden he had spent so many years perfecting. Life in a city apartment made him restless and unhappy until he found an ingenious solution to his problem. Dressed in old gardening clothes with a spade over one shoulder, he patrolled the streets of a nearby wealthy district until he found a house whose garden tempted him. Then he rang the bell and, tipping his hat respectfully to the lady of the…
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