The Meaning of the First Christmas | No Room in the Inn
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
4.0 • 805 Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
I would like to wish all of you a peaceful and joyful Christmas, one that rejuvenates you spiritually and mentally. To celebrate Christmas I am sharing an old episode (2017) of Our Sunday Talks, a series produced for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode was edited and adapted from The Crown of Individuality by William George Jordan, published in 1909.
Christmas Podcast Excerpt: The world’s attitude towards the birth of every great truth is focused in a single phrase in the simple story of the first Christmas, the greatest birthday since time began. Mary laid the infant Christ in a manger because (quote) —“there was no room for them in the inn.”
For worldly success, fame, social prestige, laurel-crowned triumph, the inn is illuminated; welcoming music fills the air; and the inn doors are thrown wide open. But the struggle towards sublime attainment, heroic effort to better the world, simple consecration of soul to a noble ideal, means the manger — and a lonely pathway lit only by the torch of truth held high in the hand of purpose.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is David. Have you thought about starting a retail business? When you think about |
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| 1:13.0 | Shopify.com slash inspirational. |
| 1:16.9 | Thank you. Welcome to our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. |
| 1:39.3 | I hope that all of you are having a joyful Christmas and holiday season while reflecting on the |
| 1:45.5 | blessings of the past year. Today I have for you a special Christmas talk, which was edited |
| 1:52.7 | and adapted from The Crown of Individuality by William George Jordan, published in 1909. |
| 2:07.9 | The world's attitude towards the birth of every great truth is focused in a single phrase in the simple story of the first Christmas, |
| 2:15.0 | the greatest birthday since time began. |
| 2:19.6 | Mary laid the infant Christ in a manger because, quote, there was no room for them in the |
| 2:26.9 | inn. |
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