Author: Inspirations By Katheryn

I am kind of a world traveler. I have lived in Korea, United Arab Emirates, Sri Lanka, Tokyo, Canada, Afghanistan, India and USA. I remember when President Kennedy was assassinated, watched the first human walk on the moon, Alaska became a state, President Kennedy & Martin Luther King were shot, and the first human walked on the moon. I remember when the first Star Wars movie came out, 900 religiously misguided humans committed suicide in Guyana, when Microsoft was "invented" and the Ayatollah Khoumeini took over Iran, kicked out western companies (employers) and returned his country to the dark ages. I WAS THERE WHEN MOUNT SAINT HELENS BLEW. I remember when the Berlin Wall fell, the Internet was created, the first warm-blooded animal was cloned (a sheep) and the Hubble Telescope was launched - all in the 1980s. And you?

SURPRISE OF THE DAY ~ December 17

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So, if the wise men (magi) did not follow the star all the way from the East (today’s Iran Iraq, N. India) as the Christmas carol says, how did they figure out where to find Jesus?    

I’m glad you asked.

Matthew 2:2  –  Daniel 9:1; 24ff  –  Daniel chap. 10  –  Daniel chap.  11  –  Daniel 12:3


Christmas Fact of the Day

Yesterday I promised to tell you the answer to “HOW”?  Here it is:,

Pagans at that time believed a new star meant a new god had been born.  I think it took them so long to arrive (nearly 2 years, based on the age of babies Herod ordered killed)  because they investigated all the major religions of that time to find the meaning of that star. 

Each religion had its writings and government  archives in its main temple  (kings were “gods” at  that time).  That means  they traveled to all of them – N. India, Alexandria, Rome, ancient Turkey, and finally back to Ecbatana in today’s SW Iran, where their archives were kept.   (And, by the way, that’s where our Queen Esther was a hundred years after Daniel.)

We know from Daniel that the book of Jeremiah was stored in Babylon, which later was absorbed by Persia, and still later, Parthia. The wise men would have had access to Jeremiah’s book in the archives.   So, surely Daniel left his own writings behind along with Jeremiah’s.  In Daniel, they would have read (1) the prophecies and the timeline of the Messiah coming 490 years later, (2) the prophecies of world conquerors – Persia, Greece, Rome, and (3) a reference to righteous stars. With the writings of Daniel available to them, they would have been able to trace his origins back to being a prince in Jerusalem.  So, what better place to go in search of the newborn deity than Jerusalem?

You’re smart.  Read the Bible for yourself.  Find out for yourself.

SURPRISE OF THE DAY ~ December 16

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The wise men followed the star as it moved all the way from “the East” to Bethlehem.

Matthew 2:1-2  –  Matthew 2: 7  –  Matthew 2: 9-10

Christmas Fact of the Day

Hate to be a scrouge again about our Christmas carols.  But “We three kings from Orient are…following yonder star”  is not 100% accurate.  When they arrived in Palestine, they went directly to Jerusalem and probably wondered why there weren’t any celebrations.  Then they found out from King Herod (who was half  Jew and half  Arab and had to find out from the priests) that the prophesied newborn King had been born in Bethlehem, six miles away.

And then, they headed out toward Bethlehem.  

And then…  And then…  And then, they saw it!  Again!  The star had returned.  And they rejoiced! 

Why would they rejoice when they saw the star if they had been following it all the way from the East? 

P.S.  Tomorrow I’ll tell you how they figured out to go to Palestine in the first place.

You’re smart.  Read the Bible for yourself.  Find out for yourself.

SURPRISE OF THE DAY ~ December 15

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The wise men from the East arrived to see the newborn baby Jesus sleeping in a hay trough the same night as the shepherds.

Matthew 2:7 – Matthew 2:9-11  –  Matthew 2:16

Christmas Fact of the Day

No!  Mary and Joseph had moved into a house by then.  It must have taken the wise men two years to get there.  Herod had all boy babies aged two and under in Bethlehem killed, according to the time when the wise men arrived and consulted with the mad king.

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Joseph is bleeding. From the broken promise. The broken heart. The broken life.

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Joseph sinks down to the floor with his etched picture of Mary. All broken. Crushed. Cut to the heart. Unhealable. Inconsolable. Betrayed with the ultimate betrayal.

Sprawling completely prostrate now, Joseph hits his fist against the floor. He is bleeding. Bleeding from the broken pottery. Bleeding from the broken promise. The broken heart. The broken life. “Oh, Mary… Oh, God…” he groans

(Excerpt from “The Other Father” chap 3 of STAR SONG)

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SURPRISE OF THE DAY ~ December 12

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The herald angels sang to the shepherds on the night Jesus was born.

Luke 2:8-13 –  Revelation  5:11-12

Christmas Fact of the Day

No!  Sorry to be a scrooge and all that.  But, just because a popular Christmas carol says, Hark! the Herald Angels Sing, doesn’t mean it’s so.  Luke said the angels declared, said, and announced, but they did not sing.  

Check out Revelation with all its appearances in heaven.  The great multitude with their robes made white in the blood of the lamb sang, but the angels said.

What a privilege God has given humans.  We can sing!  

You’re smart.  Read the Bible for yourself.  Find out for yourself.

SURPRISE OF THE DAY ~ December 11

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Christmas Surprise of the Day

What did Gabriel mean when he told Mary the Holy Spirit was going to overshadow her and then she would be pregnant with the Son of God taking on flesh?

  Luke 1:35 – John 1:1 & 14 – Genesis 1:2

Christmas Fact of the Day

 When you study the Holy Spirit, you find the Life-Giver (or re-Giver), the Animator, the Mover, the Implementor of  the Mind of God’s will.  

The Greek word translated in Luke as OVERSHADOW is the same Hebrew word translated in Genesis 1:2 as HOVER.  The same thing happened when God created the earth as when God came to Mary’s womb.  

You’re smart.  Read the Bible for yourself.  Find out for yourself.

OOPS OF THE DAY ~ December 10

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When Joseph and Mary arrived at Bethlehem, she was about to deliver, but all the inns were full.  

Luke 2:7

Christmas Fact of the Day 

No! Luke did  not say “all  innS  were”.   He  said  “THE  INN WAS.”   There was only one inn in Bethlehem!

This little tidbit in grammar can make a lot of difference when we view the panic Joseph must have been feeling that night.

You’re smart.  Read the Bible for yourself.  Find out for yourself.

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OOPS OF THE DAY ~ December 9

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Christmas Oops of the Day

Joseph was a decent man, so decided not to tell all their friends the wedding was off, but to save Mary the embarrassment and just divorce her secretly.  Besides, it would give Mary time to get out of town,  have her baby somewhere else, give it away, and return home still with her pride and resume her life as it had been, sans Joseph.

Matthew 1:19 and Deuteronomy 22:13-21

Christmas Fact of the Day 

No!  Joseph was not just saving Mary from being embarrassed .  He was saving her from being killed!

The Law of Moses, under which they lived, said that a woman who was not a virgin when married could be publicly exposed by her newly betrothed husband.  Then she was to be stoned to death at the door of her father and mother.

True, we today who believe the Bible believe she was still a virgin.  But her pregnancy was “proof” to the villagers and the world that she had committed adultery.  

Can you imagine the taunts that Joseph endured by marrying a woman already pregnant?  What a strong and brave man he was.  More tomorrow.

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The two women fall into each other’s arms, locked in love, faith, and ultimate submission to holiness.

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My dear friends in the Lord, I’d like to share with you how this book – STAR SONG – came about . When I was seventeen years old at Harding College in 1958 I wrote some of which you will read in this book. When I showed it to some of my girlfriends, they said I should write the entire life of Christ. I told them I was not old enough and had not experienced enough of life yet. But I promised I would write it when I was sixty.

Through the years, I added things and changed things, first on my portable Royal typewriter, then an electric typewriter, and finally my “amazing” Selectric typewriter. And the pages had smudges where I had erased and replaced words here and there and became aged and brittle. Much of what you will read now of Mary’s conversations with Gabriel, her family, and Elizabeth I wrote when I was seventeen. Also, most of what you will read from the time Jesus left the fortress with his cross to his last breath I wrote when I was seventeen.

Throughout the years, my growing number of pages were stored in closets, bottom drawers, and, finally, file cabinets as I moved through life from one place to another.  I even sometimes separated parts of them into inspirational pamphlets which I printed with those ditto machines with their purple ink and later on mimeograph machines, getting ink all over my hands and clothes. Yet, all through those forty-three years, I remembered my promise made in my dormitory room so long ago when we were all so young.

Then, when I was fifty-nine, having lived and experienced far more during those years than I had really desired, I sat down to finish writing my entire life of Christ. I cannot recall whether it was during the summer or winter months when I finished it, but it was in the year 2000. I had kept my promise.

SURPRISE OF THE DAY ~ December 8

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Surprise of the Day

One of the last messages of God at the end of the Old Testament was

“I will send you my Malachi.” 

BOOK OF MALACHI

Fact of the Day

     The very last book of the OLD Testament – Malachi –  was written about four centuries before the birth of Jesus (which occurred at the beginning of the NEW Testament).  Through Malachi, God sent the world the above final message of hope.  Soon now (considering the age of the world) the promised Messiah (“Anointed One”) would arrive.  But how will the world know him when he gets here? 

     Don’t worry.  God explained…  

“I will send you my Messenger.” 

     Huh?  What messenger? You just said you were going to send your Malachi. Now you’re saying you are going to send your Messesnger. You’re taking us in circles!

     Well, Malachi’s name means “messenger” and as a prophet, he “delivered messages” from God.

     Ohhhh.  Was God planning for the prophet Malachi to live another four hundred years to introduce the Messiah (Anointed One) to the world?   That’s what it looks like.  Didn’t God just say…

“I will send you MY Malachi”

      Oh! He will send someone else who will be HIS Malachi!

     Well, my friends, if your head isn’t swimming with this play on words in the Bible,  hold that thought.  In a few days, the answer to this divine riddle will become clear to you.

     See you tomorrow!

You’re smart.  Read the Bible for yourself.  Find out for yourself.