{"id":686,"date":"2015-11-17T08:55:43","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T13:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countrygospelandbible.com\/?p=686"},"modified":"2015-11-17T08:58:59","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T13:58:59","slug":"follow-the-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/countrygospelandbible.com\/?p=686","title":{"rendered":"Follow the star"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Follow the star by\u00a0Don Foster (based on a dream I had many years ago)<\/p>\n

Wife: What are you doing?
\nHusband: I\u2019m packing my bags.
\nWife: So you\u2019re leaving me?
\nHusband: I\u2019m just going on a trip.
\nWife: You mean, before daybreak, you\u2019re sneaking out of the house without even telling me?
\nHusband: Well, I only decided last night and you were asleep when I got home.
\nWife: What is her name?
\nHusband: It\u2019s not a woman, it\u2019s something else.
\nWife: Top secret?
\nHusband: Well, yeah, something like that.
\nWife: Where are you going?
\nHusband: I don\u2019t know.
\nWife: Is the government sending you on a secret mission?
\nHusband: No, this has nothing to do with the government.
\nWife: Why are you taking so many things? How long are you going for?
\nHusband: I don\u2019t know.
\nWife: You mean to tell me, you don\u2019t know where you are going, and you don\u2019t know how long you are going for? Is this trip more important than your wife and kids?
\nHusband: Yes.
\nWife: Now I\u2019ve heard it all. You\u2019ve gone crazy. What if Fred comes around? What shall I tell him?
\nHusband: Nothing.
\nWife: Is it so top secret that your best friend doesn\u2019t even know about it?
\nHusband: Fred\u2019s coming with me.
\nWife: What? What will I tell Bill?
\nHusband: Nothing ….. he\u2019s also coming?
\nWife: How many of you are going?
\nHusband: Just the three of us.
\nWife: What do their wives think?
\nHusband: I don\u2019t know.
\nWife: You guys are crazy! You\u2019re leaving your wives and children to go on a wild goose chase to who knows where?
\nHusband: I knew you wouldn\u2019t understand, that\u2019s why I wasn\u2019t going to tell you.
\nWife: Who\u2019s going to lead the way if you don\u2019t know where you are going?
\nHusband: Honey, sit down. I\u2019ll try to explain. You see, we were looking at the sky last night and we saw a star we have never seen before and we are going to follow it.
\nWife: You were drinking too much last night.
\nHusband: (Sigh)
\nWife: What\u2019s in this bag? It looks like gold! Where did you get all this gold?
\nHusband: Well, I\u2019ve been saving it up for some time.
\nWife: You\u2019ve never spent this kind of gold on me before. What are you going to do with it?
\nHusband: I\u2019m going to give it away.
\nWife: Give it away! To whom? What is her name?
\nHusband: It\u2019s not a \u2018her.\u2019 It\u2019s a \u2018him.\u2019
\nWife: You\u2019ve gone mad. Give away all this gold to someone you\u2019ve never met, in a place where you\u2019ve never been, and then you\u2019re going to follow a star to get there? You ought to see a psychiatrist. You\u2019ve gone stark raving mad! You and your friends!
\nHusband: I knew you wouldn\u2019t understand.
\nWife: Are they also giving away gold?
\nHusband: No, Fred\u2019s taking frankincense, and Bill\u2019s taking myrrh.
\nWife: Now I\u2019ve heard it all! And you say us women are unpredictable. You\u2019ve all gone crazy! Crazy men!<\/p>\n

PS. This is based on the story in the Bible of the wise men coming to see Jesus (Matthew chapter 2), and was inspired after reading about the birth of Abraham in the Book of Jasher (mentioned in Joshua 10,13 and 2 Samuel 1,18).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Follow the star by\u00a0Don Foster (based on a dream I had many years ago) Wife: What are you doing? Husband: I\u2019m packing my bags. Wife: So you\u2019re leaving me? Husband: I\u2019m just going on a trip. Wife: You mean, before … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[54,55],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5zRue-b4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/countrygospelandbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/countrygospelandbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/countrygospelandbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/countrygospelandbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/countrygospelandbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/countrygospelandbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":691,"href":"https:\/\/countrygospelandbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions\/691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/countrygospelandbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/countrygospelandbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/countrygospelandbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}