1John 4:9 This is how God showed his LOVE among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
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There are many allegorical stories about Jesus being sent from heaven to live among men. Paul Harvey tells the story, "The Birds" about an athiest trying to help birds find shelter from a snowstorm in a barn; then saying, "if only I were a bird, I could tell them..." http://www.tyny.com/christmasstory.html
I saw a movie once about a man who saw some ants in trouble and wanted to send his son to help them, as an ant.
A hymn that captures this theme has the chorus like this:
Ivory Palaces
Out of the ivory palaces,
Into a world of woe,
Only His great eternal love
Made my Savior go.
This is love.
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Photo taken outside our house the other day. Frost outlining roses.
